Wild Neighbors
- ISBN-10
- 1230220305
- ISBN-13
- 9781230220307
- Series
- Wild Neighbors
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Theclassics.Us
- Author
- Ernest Ingersoll
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... ii the father of game I Have frequently noticed in menageries a start of surprise in the eyes of persons before a puma's cage, when they learned that this splendid cat was American. It somehow informs our prosaic northern forests with a foreign, romantic, and adventurous spirit, to find such a denizen in them, for pictures of the lion, tiger, and leopard so fill our imaginations that all large and fierce beasts seem necessarily tropical. That, however, is by no means the fact. Even in America the jaguar wanders north to the Indian Territory--or once did--and south into Patagonia, while the puma is to be found from Canada to Cape Horn. Indeed, the wonder is that any natural barriers, less than wide spaces of water, restrict the range of these powerful animals. What prevented the jaguar, able to live along the western hank of the lower Mississippi, from spreading eastward, at least throughout the South Atlantic States? Yet we have no record that he ever did so, although "moving accidents of flood" must again and again have placed individuals and pairs on the eastern shore of the Father of Waters, whose current the jaguar is quite competent to swim, if he likes. As for the puma, he possesses the whole continent as far north at least as the watershed of Hudson Bay, in the east, while on the western coast he follows the mountains to the middle of British Columbia. Southward he is plentiful throughout the tropics, and less so even to the Straits of Magellan. No other kind of cat, not only, but no other sort of land animal whatever (not domesticated) equals this species in north and south range (100 degrees); and that implies that no other is called upon to adapt itself to such a diversity of seasons, climatic conditions, food, and competition....
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