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American animal life (1916) (14783477983)
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Title: American animal life
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Deming, Therese O. (Therese Osterheld), b. 1874 Deming, Edwin Willard, 1860-1942, ill
Subjects: Zoology Animals
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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a more hilly feeding-ground;but, then, he is not a grazing animal, like his deer cousins, but browses upon leaves, bark,or twigs of trees, and also eats the lichens and mosses that hang from the trees. Strangeto say, this great, almost prehistoric, creature loves the water, and his choicest dainty issaid to be the roots of the yellow spatter-docks. Surely, he must love the busy little beaver,which lives in all the streams, for it builds dams and makes lakes where the lily pads willgrow. lave you ever seen the little beaver? He loves the water as well as the land, and hishind feet are completely webbed. He is not very large, though, he is one of the largestrodents. He can, with his big teeth, cut down a tree for building a dam. He has a broad,flat tail, but he uses it only to help him swim, or sometimes when danger is approaching heslaps the water with it, and instantly all his brothers disappear. Wherever the beaver builds his dam, the water is less swift, and the lily pads grow more
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MOOSE AND BEAVER thickly. The moose loves to wander through the dense thickets that grow around thelakes, bogs, and streams of the forest; but when he hears a sound he holds his great muz-zle up, lays his massive crown of palmated horns back on his shoulders—to avoid thebranches—and then runs, with a clumsy, shuffling gait. To increase his speed he simplylengthens his stride; and his hoofs make a queer, clanking noise as he trots along. Whenhe finds a log in his way, no matter how high it may be, he does not stop to jump over;he never changes his gait, but steps a little higher. These same long legs help him whenhe reaches up to peel the bark from young trees, or to bite off the tender shoots. In winter the moose live in the pine woods in the hilly country, where they can browseupon the bark and the juicy evergreens. Several families live together; and when the snowbegins to get very deep they break trails over several acres, where they can travel to findfood. These places are cal
When he was still an infant, Deming’s family moved from his birthplace in Ashland, Ohio, to western Illinois, an area that during those pre-and post-Civil War years retained a frontier character, and where roaming Winnebago Indians were sometimes neighbors. While still in his teens, Deming traveled to Indian territory in Oklahoma and sketched extensively. Determined to become a painter of Indians, he enrolled at the Art Students League, then spent a year at the Académie Julian in Paris (1884−85), studying under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. Back in the United States, he worked the next two years painting cycloramas. In 1887 Deming first visited and painted the Apaches and Pueblos of the Southwest. His active career of painting and illustrating took him repeatedly to the lands of the Blackfoot, Crow, and Sioux, as well as to Arizona and New Mexico. After the turn of the century, Deming devoted more time to sculpture but also began work on a series of romantic murals of Indian life, which were subsequently installed in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the American Indian in New York.
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