Why beaver splashes his tail in water and dives when attacked

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Why beaver splashes his tail in water and dives when attacked.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: attack and defense. · view the constellation · filed as A2462.2

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The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

QuileuteFarrand JAFL XXXII 251.

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Filed under Animal's habits when attacked.

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