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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, July 18, 1912, Image 22

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THE BULL MOOSE IS A
By Wm. TemDle Hornaday.
(Director of New York Zoo.)
(Dr. Wm. T. Hornaday, fa
mous as director of the New York
zoo, with its thousands of ani
mals, adds a chapter in The Day
Book to-day in the bull moose
controversy. Dr. Longy the fa
mous animal book writer, said the
other day that the bull moose was
a coward and a four-flusher, and
thereby avenged himself on T. R.,
Dr. W. T. Hornaday.
who named Long 'a nature faker.'
Dr. Hornaday, who has sought
animals for zoological purposes
in every nook and corner of the
globe, says differently in the fol
lowing article. Editor.)
The bull moqsejs the piost co
lossal deer that ever trod the face
of the earth. He is the biggest
and strongest and bravest of his
race, living or extinct. And he
is the hardiest, too, for he sur
vives where other deer die out.
WHALE OF A FELLER. -
But the moose cannot live irr
captivity. At least not for long.
No matter what choice tid-bits
are given him dr how pleasant his
life is made, he soon languishes
and dies.
Without daily strenuous exer
cise over miles of country his
stomach won't digest the food
that is natural to him bark,
moss and the like. And he can
not live on any other food.
The monarch of the northern
forests has been called simple and
curious, easily lured to his death
by a "birch bark horn, vicious to
ward men and his own kind, and
cowardly in danger. As a matter
of fact, he is ortly one of these
things.
A bull moose is curious. That
is why the birch bark horn, blown
in imitation of the cow's call,
sometimes gets him into trouble
with the hunters. The bull isn't
deceived into believing that it's
real moose talk he wants to find
out what it really is.
During the mating season the
bull is recklesa and absolutely
fearless. At other times only his
proud spirit gets him into trouble
with hunters. He dislikes to ac
knowledge fear, afnd so he some
times gets himself into dangerous
situations.
The bull moose stands six and
seven feet high, with legs four
feet long. His hide, thick and
strong, is covered with a heavy
thatch of purplish gray hair. The
antlers have a spread of five to six
feet in a full-grown animal.
The moose does not graze like
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