Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-02

food he is unable to devour or carry away
with him. 1t is sometimes possible to sur
prise him and kill him with a rife but if
he can only obtain glimpse of the hunter,
he Is such an adept at playing hide and
seek behind the trunks of trees that it is
exceedingly difficult to get a shot at him.
The senses of self-preservation, instinct
and scent are so fully developed in the car
cajou that he seldom falls a victim to poi
son. If he takes it at all, he generally dis
covers it before he has taken enough to
cause him harm. and If dangerous
amount of it should by any chance be
swallowed, he Immediately elects it from
his stomach. Not only does he absent him.
self in future from the scene of the poison
but apparently he warns all others of his
kind, and no wolverines are likely to trou-
BILE the neighborhood for some time to
come
1t is scarcely possible to build any hut or
cache in the woods for storing goods or
provisions into which a wolverine will not
force an entrance. 1t will drag away with
it load of hundred pounds or more
Some of the Indians tie their packs at the
end Of the branches Of tree twenty feet
or more from the ground, but sometimes
this is not very easy. and If the pack is
not high enough the carcajou will jump up
to 1t and bring it down. Sometimes when
the pack is tied high up in the tree, the
carcajou will climb the tree and endeavor
to run along the branch to where the pack
is tied. Some of the Indians hang their
little dog sleigbells below the pack and the
carcajou is often frightened away by the
ringing of them when he attempts to ap-
proach the pack and SO shakes the branch
to which 1t Is attached.
The desire for accommodating property
seems SO deeply implanted by nature in the
wolverine that, like the tame raven. it does
not appear to care much what it steals, so
long as it can exercise its favorite pro-
pensity for mischief. 1t hunts hares, birds
and mice, and is very destructive to bea-
yer and the smaller specimens of the deer
kind. Unable from lack of speed to chase
deer and caribou, as wolves do. the VOL
VERNE Usually conceals himself in tree or
by the side of a deer path and springs
upon the back Of its prey as it runs by.
With its fangs and long sharp claws it
clings to it's affrighted victim until it has
severed its carotid artery and bled it to
death. 1t will destroy a beaver dam in
order to enter the lodge andidevour the in
mates. q 80
In appearance the Canadian carcajou is a
vicious enough looking brute. 1t is often
more than three feet IN length, exclusive
Of the tail Its winter color is dark brown
upon the back while broad band Of much
lighter yellowish brown passes from the
shoulder downward along each side to the
root of the tail. The forehead, cheeks and
nape of the neck are gray. the feet and
end of the tail are black, and a number of
yellow, orange or white spots are irregu-
larry scattered from the throat to the fore
leg. The head is broad and rounded, the
eyes are small and far apart, the ears low
and rounded and thickly covered the
outside with long. soft fur, which nearly
conceals them. The whiskers are COM
paratively short, stiff and not very numer-
Gus, and there are over each eye sparse
tufts of similar hairs. The body is long
and stout, of great muscular power and
formed for strength and activity. The feet
are large and armed with strong claws.
well curved. and more than an inch in
length In examining the skull of the VOL
VERNE the most striking points are the
shortness and breadness of its muzzle and
,f.rvr,
Use of those reasoning powers which the
nature and habits Of the animal do not