The mother protects her cubs at any cost. Many 

 a grizzly mother has died in defense of her off- 

 spring, and I do not know of an instance of a moth- 

 er's running away when her cubs were exposed to 

 danger. 



At Grand Lake, Colorado, one June day, I went 

 with a trapper on his rounds, thinking that he 

 might have trapped a grizzly. He had a cub 

 trapped by a fore paw. As we approached the spot, 

 I chanced to climb over a pile of fallen timber and 

 from the top of this I saw Mother Grizzly lying in 

 wait a short distance in front of the cub. She had 

 dug out a place behind a log and was lying there 

 concealed, unmistakably waiting for the trapper. 



One morning late in May, while I stood behind 

 a tree watching two young beaver at play in the 

 pond, a small grizzly cub, of the same brown color 

 as the beaver, walked out to the end of a log that 

 lay partly in the water. He was interested in the 

 beaver. Reaching down, he touched the water with 

 right fore paw, whimpered, but hesitated about 

 going in. While he stood looking trustingly at them, 

 the beaver, who had been watching him, dived 

 into the pond. 



Cubs as well as human children sometimes be- 



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