Wild Animals at Home

by Ernest Thompson Seton

Contents

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• I. The Cute Coyote [1]
• An Exemplary Little Beast, My Friend the Coyote[3]
• The Prairie-dog Outwitted[5]
• The Coyote's Sense of Humour [8]
• His Distinguishing Gift [11]
• The Coyote's Song [13]
• II. The Prairie-dog and His Kin [17]
• Merry Yek-Yek and His Life of Troubles [19]
• The Whistler in the Rocks [22]
• The Pack-rat and His Museum [23]
• A Free Trader [25]
• The Upheaver—The Mole-Gopher [27]
• III. Famous Fur-bearers—Fox, Marten, Beaver and Otter [29]
• The Most Wonderful Fur in the World [32]
• The Poacher and the Silver Fox [35]
• The Villain in Velvet—The Marten [47]
• The Industrious Beaver [48]
• The Dam [51]
• The Otter and His Slide [52]
• IV. Horns and Hoofs and Legs of Speed [55]
• The Bounding Blacktail [57]
• The Mother Blacktail's Race for Life [59]
• The Blacktail's Safety Is in the Hills [62]
• The Elk or Wapiti—The Noblest of all Deer [63]
• Stalking a Band of Elk [64]
• The Bugling Elk [66]
• Snapping a Charging Bull [69]
• The Hoodoo Cow [72]
• The Moose—The Biggest of all Deer [75]
• My Partner's Moose-hunt [76]
• The Siren Call [77]
• The Biggest of Our Game—The Buffalo [80]
• The Shrunken Range [81]
• The Doomed Antelope and His Heliograph [83]
• The Rescued Bighorn [85]
• V. Bats in the Devil's Kitchen [89]
• VI. The Well-meaning Skunk [95]
• His Smell-gun [98]
• The Cruelty of Steel Traps [99]
• Friendliness of the Skunk [100]
• Photographing Skunks at Short Range [101]
• We Share the Shanty with the Skunks [103]
• The Skunk and the Unwise Bobcat [104]
• My Pet Skunks [106]
• VII. Old Silver-grizzle—The Badger [111]
• The Valiant Harmless Badger [112]
• His Sociable Bent [115]
• The Story of the Kindly Badger [116]
• The Evil One [118]
• The Badger that Rescued the Boy [119]
• Finding the Lost One [123]
• Home Again [125]
• The Human Brute [129]
• VIII. The Squirrel and His Jerky-tail Brothers [133]
• The Cheeky Pine Squirrel [134]
• Chipmunks and Ground-squirrels [137]
• The Ground-squirrel that Plays Picket-pin [137]
• Chink and the Picket-pins [139]
• Chipmunks [141]
• The Ground-squirrel that Pretends It's a Chipmunk [142]
• A Four-legged Bird—The Northern Chipmunk [143]
• A Striped Pigmy—The Least Chipmunk [147]
• IX. The Rabbits and Their Habits [151]
• Molly Cottontail—The Clever Freezer [152]
• The Rabbit that Wears Snowshoes [154]
• The Terror of the Mountain Trails [156]
• Bunny's Ride [158]
• The Rabbit Dance [160]
• The Ghost Rabbit [163]
• A Narrow-gauge Mule—The Prairie Hare [164]
• The Bump of Moss that Squeaks [165]
• The Weatherwise Coney [169]
• His Safety Is in the Rocks [171]
• X. Ghosts of the Campfire [175]
• The Jumping Mouse [177]
• The Calling Mouse [179]
• XI. Sneak-cats, Big and Small [185]
• The Bobcat or Mountain Wildcat [186]
• Misunderstood—The Canada Lynx [187]
• The Shyest Thing in the Woods [189]
• The Time I Met a Lion [191]
• In Peril of My Life [194]
• The Dangerous Night Visitor [196]
• XII. Bears of High and Low Degree [201]
• The Different Kinds of Bears [202]
• Bear-trees [203]
• A Peep Into Bear Family Life [204]
• The Day at the Garbage Pile [208]
• Lonesome Johnny [210]
• Further Annals of the Sanctuary [210]
• The Grizzly and the Can [216]
• Appendix: Mammals of Yellowstone Park [221]

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List of Half-tone Plates

• A Prairie-dog town [Frontispiece]
• FACING PAGE
• Chink's adventures with the Coyote and the Picket-pin [8]
• (a) The Whistler watching me from the rocks (b) A young Whistler [9]
• Red Fox [32]
• Foxes quarrelling [33]
• Beaver [48]
• Mule-deer [49]
• Blacktail Family [60]
• Blacktail mother with her twins [61]
• A young investigator among the Deer at Fort Yellowstone [64]
• Elk in Wyoming [65]
• Elk on the Yellowstone in Winter [68]
• The first shots at the Hoodoo Cow [69]
• The last shots at the Hoodoo Cow [76]
• Elk on the Yellowstone [77]
• Moose—The Widow [80]
• Buffalo groups [81]
• Near Yellowstone Gate [84]
• Mountain Sheep on Mt. Evarts [85]
• Track record of Bobcat's adventure with a Skunk [98]
• The six chapters of the Bobcat's adventure [102]
• My tame Skunks [103]
• Red-squirrel storing mushrooms for winter use [134]
• Chink stalking the Picket-pin [135]
• The Snowshoe Hare is a cross between a Rabbit and a Snowdrift [150]
• The Cottontail freezing [151]
• The Baby Cottontail that rode twenty miles in my hat [162]
• Snowshoe Rabbits dancing in the light of the lantern [163]
• Snowshoe Rabbits fascinated by the lantern [170]
• The Ghost Rabbit [171]
• The Coney or Calling Hare [178]
• The Coney barns full of hay stored for winter use [179]
• (a) Tracks of Deer escaping and (b) Tracks of Mountain Lion in pursuit [186]
• The Mountain Lion sneaking around us as we sleep [187]
• Sketch of the Bear Family as made on the spot [198]
• Two pages from my journal in the garbage heap [199]
• While I sketched the Bears, a brother camera-hunter was stalking me without my knowledge [206]
• One meets the Bears at nearly every turn in the woods [207]
• The shyer ones take to a tree, if one comes too near [210]
• Clifford B. Harmon feeding a Bear [211]
• The Bears at feeding time [218]
• (a) Tom Newcomb pointing out the bear's mark, (b) E. T. Seton feeding a Bear [219]
• Johnnie Bear: his sins and his troubles [222]
• Johnnie happy at last [223]

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The Cute Coyote

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