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1042 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



of the honeymoon. The pair, if they meet again, may accept 

 each other as friends, but not as mates. Whether they reunite 

 on the next breeding season is utterly unknown. 



GESTA- In the first of the above-mentioned cases the gestation 



lasted a httle over 6 months, and in the second 6 months and 

 4 days. This, strange to say, is a month less than in the 

 Blackbear and may be modified by shorter hibernation in the 

 Grizzly. 



My notes on the first are as follows : New York, January 1 7, 

 1 901. The male Grizzly in the Central Park Zoo was brought 

 here in 1891 ; the female in 1884. Both were full grown when 

 they came. Two years ago they produced a cub. Last year 

 again they mated in July, uniting many times. To-day, about 

 11.20 A. M., a young one (a female) was born. (Whether 

 there were others is not known.) It weighs ij pounds, 

 is 8§ inches long (216 mm.) from tip of tail to end of nose. 

 It is blind and apparently naked, but covered with very 

 fine, short, gray hair, and is of a pale pink or flesh tint. The 

 ears are low and the openings not yet visible. It squeals like 

 a child when it is hungry, and is very restless, nosing about, 

 falling on its back, and screaming in temper. It began to 

 suck its dog foster-mother at i p. m., when i hour and 40 

 minutes old. The little one had all the form of a Grizzly — the 

 shape of head, the hump on shoulders, the paws, the lower 

 jaw. The tail, however, was proportionally too long for the 

 adult. The mother had been carrying it about in her mouth. 

 It was somewhat scratched and bruised by her teeth. Of this 

 I made several sketches. It died a few days later. 



The second case was in San Francisco. On June ig, 1904, 

 Monarch, the old Californian Grizzly at the Golden Gate 

 Park, united with a female Rocky Mountain Grizzly. On 

 December 23 (6 months and 4 days later), 2 little cubs were 

 born in the cage. They were kept hidden by the mother 

 for several weeks. They are now (March 18) nearly 3 

 months old and about a foot high at the shoulder. They 

 weigh, I should think, 12 or 15 pounds, are very pretty and 



