A MOTHER grizzly and her year-and-a-half- 

 old cub came shuffling along the shore of a 

 little lake in the No-Summer Mountains. Where a 

 brook flowed into the lake she stopped, looked at 

 the cub, and possibly grunted something to him. 

 She may have said, "Here, Johnny, is a territory 

 not claimed by other bears; this is to be your do- 

 main." I watched him as she went ambling away 

 alone. He stood looking at the ground for several 

 seconds, then turned to see his mother in the dis- 

 tance, and finally surveyed his surroundings. 

 Pushed off into the world to shift for himself, the 

 cub walked up the mountain-side and disappeared 

 in the woods. 



I had seen this cub and his mother on the other 

 side of the Medicine Bow Mountains, at least fifty 

 miles away. When I saw her leaving the cub to 

 make his way alone, I wanted to ask, "Is it com- 

 mon for a mother grizzly to take her children to 

 the territory that is to be their home?" The selec- 

 tion of this domain may sometimes be made by the 



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