Things to Find Out

Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into American Animals — and out of doors.

What little animal came over on the Mayflower, and keeps on coming?
How are whales captured by whalers?
What is the form, location, and use of the whalebone mass?
What is the "spouting" process?
What and where is the "blubber"?
What is ambergris, and what is its origin?
What is the origin of the great tusk of the narwhal?
What representative of the pig family lives wild in Texas?
How often do deer shed their horns?
What trees do elk choose on which to rub the velvet from their antlers?
What is deer-stalking?
What is meant by "yarding"?
What change of colour prepares the caribou to avoid detection?
What is Ernest Thompson Seton's explanation of "the antelope's heliograph"?
What says Owen Wister of the white goat's ways?
What is the unique mode of escape from enemies practised by the bighorn?
What animals have helped to exterminate the bison?
How does Dr. Hornaday account for their swift extermination?
Why do the teeth of rodents never "wear out"?
What animal is all but universal in distribution?
Compare rabbits and squirrels as to the use of the front feet.
What distinguishes a rabbit from a hare?
What is the ideal location, from a cottontail's viewpoint?
How does a cottontail stave off hunger?
How does it evade its enemies?
What are these?
What colour changes of the hair are protective?
What is the life led by the Jack rabbit in the West?
What mammals lay eggs?
What mammals carry the young in a pouch?
How many opossums are born at a time?
How many litters a year?
Read the account of the habits of the opossum.
What mammal is encased in a bony coat of mail, and is toothless?
How does the porcupine avenge his death weeks after he has been eaten?
How is a gopher's burrow made?
What are the enemies of the meadow mouse?
How, when, and where does the muskrat build its house?
What are its enemies, and what its warning signal of danger?
What is the trade name of muskrat's fur?
What species is the most beautiful of our native mice?
In what weather do mice in housewalls make the most disturbance?
How does the beaver build his dam and log cabin?
What example of parental solicitude is cited?
How is the flying squirrel's flight accomplished?
What illustrates protective coloration here?
Read the life stories of woodchuck, and chipmunk
What faults and vices has the red squirrel?
What small mammal is abundant but rarely known by name in the North?
How does a mole convey the dirt to the surface of the ground?
What are the peculiarities of the nose and ear of a bat?
How does the mother bat carry her young while she flies after insects?
What is the position of a sleeping bat?
Read the account of the behaviour of a captive bat.
What is the organization of a seal "rookery"?
What are the feeding habits of the walrus?
What animal has the most valuable pelt worn by a native quadruped?
What is the posture of a sea otter mother asleep with her young?
What is the quality of skunk's flesh as food?
What do skunks feed upon?
What is accomplished by the skunk's kindergarten?
What superlative traits arm the mink to compete with his enemies?
How does the black tip of the weasel's tail help to render the body invisible to enemies?
What is the summer colour of the weasel's fur? The winter colour?
What is the method of the marten's hunting?
What animal is the sneak-thief among animals of the north woods?
What peculiar habit earned for the racoon his name, Lotor?
What animals are favourites with the Negro population?
How does the polar bear capture its prey?
How does the black bear get a living?
What are the characters in which the grizzly bear writes his challenge?
Read the tales of the shrewdness of the red fox.
How is the blue fox transformed in appearance on the approach of winter?
How does the old one provide for winter food?
What is the Indian myth regarding the coyote's friendliness to man?
What animal is fabled to see through all substances?
What animal is the swiftest runner on the continent?