WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS BOOKS BY ENOS A. MILLS ADVENTURES OF A NATURE GUIDE THE GRIZZLY, OUR GREATEST WILD ANIMAL IN BEAVER WORLD ROCKY MOUNTAIN WONDERLAND STORY OF A THOUSAND-YEAR PINE WILD LIFE ON THE ROCKIES STORY OF ESTES PARK, GRAND LAKE, AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK STORY OF SCOTCH SPELL OF THE ROCKIES WAITING IN THE WILDERNESS WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS YOUR NATIONAL PARKS [Illustration: _©1905, by John M. Phillips_ _The Rocky Mountain Goat_] WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS BY ENOS A. MILLS ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL JAMES GARDEN CITY, N.Y., AND TORONTO DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1922 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1921, BY THE SPRAGUE PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY SUBURBAN PRESS COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY FIELD AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY PRINTED AT GARDEN CITY, N. Y., U. S. A. _First Edition_ TO ESTHER AND ENDA PREFACE In the wilds, moving or standing, I was the observed of all observers. Although the animals did not know I was coming, generally they were watching for me and observed me without showing themselves. As I sat on a log watching two black bears playing in a woods opening, a faint crack of a stick caused me to look behind. A flock of mountain sheep were watching me only a few steps distant. A little farther away a wildcat sat on a log, also watching me. There probably were other watchers that I did not see. Animals use instinct and reason and also have curiosity--the desire to know. Many of the more wide-awake species do not run panic-stricken from the sight or the scent of man. When it is safe they linger to watch him. They also go forth seeking him. Their keen, automatic, constant senses detect him afar, and stealthily, sometimes for hours, they stalk, follow and watch him. In the wilderness the enthusiastic, painstaking and skillful observer will see many wild folks following their daily routine. But, however fortunate he may be, numerous animals will watch him whose presence he never suspects. * * * * * Parts of the chapters in this book have appeared in the _Saturday Evening Post_, the _American Boy_, _Field and Stream_, _Munsey’s_ and _Countryside_. Acknowledgment is hereby made to the editors of these magazines for granting permission to reprint this material. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE