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One day I saw a bear who appeared to be suffer- 

 ing from a headache. A short time before he had 

 eaten an enormous quantity of garbage. This may 

 have been his first dinner at a garbage-pile. Stand- 

 ing up, he felt of his head with first one fore paw 

 and then the other. Then, lying down, he endeav- 

 ored to hold his head in both fore paws. He had 

 just thrust it into a stream and was trying to rub it 

 with his paw when I last saw him. On another oc- 

 casion I noticed a bear suffering from a toothache. 

 He felt of his tooth, clawed at it, and in a number 

 of other ways showed his annoyance. 



In the Yellowstone the environment of grizzlies 

 was radically changed when it became a wild-life 

 reservation. The numerous bear-population quickly 

 discovered that in the Park it would not be shot at. 

 Grizzlies at once wandered about near people with 

 no attempt to conceal themselves and with the 

 best of manners; there was no annoying of people, 

 no crossness, no ferocity. This ideal association of 

 people and grizzly bears went on unmarred for 

 years. 



Numbers of bears from far outside Park bound- 

 aries came to spend two or three months of each 

 summer there, returning to home territory during 



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