The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-08-02
TIE LoUPcERvlER.
Savage and Active, He Is the Terror Of
Smaller Animals.

III Lne lOupceTVler, Of LhuautdA
lynx, were heavy and strong in pro-
portion to his pugnacity and savage
appearance, he would be bad GUS
toner for man or dog to tackle"
said the man from Maine. "As it
is, it takes a sandy hound to do one
UP even if he gets him cornered,
which is hard thing to do. In
point of fact, the loupcervier is
buffer. He keeps himself pretty
well in the backwoods away from
the abodes of men, but when the !
hunter or lumberman comes unex-
pectedly on one the beast is by no
means sure to run away, Though
slight of build, the loupcervieri is long
legged, and when he faces a man,
his eyes glaring yellow, his gray
fur sticking out in all directions, his
tasseled ears upright, with the ugly
grin that shows his long teeth, he
isn't the sort of creature that one
would like to take up and fondle.
If the man approach him, he will
spit and snarl as if about to put up
great fight, and it is only at the
last moment that he will give ground
and leap away. Even then he goes
no farther than he has to, some
times darting up tree or to the top
of high rock, where, ensconced ON
the defensive, the temptation is
not great to follow him. In that
case, if the man have gun, of
course the affair is quickly settled,
but otherwise the loupcervier usual
ly holds the fort.
ITO the smaller animals on which
he preys the loupcervier is a terror.
He is quicker than chain lightning
creased and is all over the woods
at once. On the ground he Skin
mishes for rabbits and grouse, and Ii
the trees he captures birds and
squirrels, and, more frequently, the
Young in their nests. He is dead
ly enemy to fawns left in hiding by
their mothers when they go away
to browse for a dinner Sometimes,
when pressed by hunger, he will at
tack doe, dropping on her back
4 from the limb of a tree beneath
which she passes, but the results OF
the experiment do not always en-
courage him to repeat it, for 1t I'M
plies an experience in bareback rid
ing that knocks broncho breaking
into the shade. But in winter, when
| the crust formed on the deep snow
will bear up the loupcervier, he,
banded with several of his kind,
will successfully hunt the deer,
which wallow hampered in the
snow. William Oakes, land sur
veyor in Maine, once came upon a
deer which had been pursued and
killed by three loupcerviers. They
had driven the animal into the tor
of fallen tree, where, entangled
among the branches, it was an easy
victim.
1.-The loupcervier, as have already
implied, is not a cautious animal
and he is less difficult to trap thar
most other animals of the feline
kind. Fast in a trap, he will put vi
his back and spit and hiss at the ap
proach of his captor, but he is easily
killed with the blow of a club on tht
head He is not so tenacious OF lift
as the wildcat, and a resolute dos
that is game to face his teeth ans
claws for the first brief round vii
make short work of him. But fol
any dog not a thoroughbred the firs
round is all sufficient, his sole con
Germ thereafter being convenien
line of retreat.
} "A man firing at a loupcervier II
a tree wants to stand well away, TO
if he venture within reach of hi
spring, with the report of his gul
he may find the creature lande'
. upon him, clawing at his face, an
even if he wins he will be apt t
I carry souvenirs of the encounter i
the shape of bites and scratches fo
many day.
with all their savage pugnacity
loupcerviers are sociable, playfr
creatures-among themselves an
!, often have been observed on moor