Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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many minutes turned and the animals are a trap. Also Yvette discovered my large wooden traps dragged half way into a hole with a baby mammal safely caught. It was a little fellow about ten inches long covered with soft yellow-white fur. We turned in at good dark... Wed June 18 This morning before we saw the magnol came to the front door to tell me that a mammal was in one of our traps. I ran hurriedly and ran over to the place but found that this animal had gotten himself loose before I arrived. While I was resetting the trap the magnol saw a mammal run up from the summit of a mountain and then disappear. He had a trap there it seems enough he was fast in a big double spring trap by the right fore leg. He was well down into the hole half around a curve and it took every ounce of my strength to drag him out. I never knew that an animal of its size could be so strong. It was a huge black male with fine pelage, with his eyes with hair still unshorn. A further check of traps many more were found and while we had a female in from other traps were springy. It requires a heavy double spring to hold these