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A series of natural-history sketches presents the early lives of various wild mammals, portraying how each species is born, nurtured, learns to feed, move, and protect itself in its habitat. Each chapter focuses on a different animal—pouch-carrying opossums, sea-cows and whales, hoofed deer, gnawers like beavers and squirrels, burrowing moles, and carnivores such as foxes and wolves—describing nesting, feeding, locomotion, building or digging, seasonal habits like hibernation, and parental care. Simple anecdotes and illustrations emphasize diversity of form and behavior, stages of growth, and the practical skills young animals must acquire to survive in forests, plains, mountains, and waters.

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Title: Wilderness Babies

Author: Julia Augusta Schwartz

Illustrator: John Alfred Huybers

Release date: October 8, 2017 [eBook #55704]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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The Squirrel.
“They sat on the branches with their bushy tails curving over their backs.” Frontispiece. See page 104.


Wilderness Babies

By
Julia Augusta Schwartz

Illustrated from Drawings by John Huybers
and from Photographs

School Edition

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company


Copyright, 1905, 1906,
By Little, Brown, and Company.

All rights reserved


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S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.