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planation you would not believe. A goat will sometimes 

 kill a full-grown silver-tip bear! I once found a big 

 goat, dead, which evidently had been killed by a silver- 

 tip, as there were lots of tracks all around, and the goat's 

 back was broken. I thought it queer that the bear had 

 not taken the goat away and buried it, as usual, so I 

 looked around. I found a large silver-tip bear, dead, 

 and all bloated up ; and when I examined him I found 

 that the goat had punched him twice, just back of the 

 heart. He had been able to kill the goat, and had then 

 gone ofif and died." 



In the spring of 1905, when Messrs. Chapman and 

 White, of Fort Steele, caught for us the five goat kids 

 received by me at Fort Steele in October, two of their 

 best dogs were killed by goats. Mr. B. T. Van Nostrand, 

 of Brooklyn, described the occurrence, as follows: 



" They started after the goats with ten dogs. The 

 larger dogs ran up to the old goats, and tried to seize 

 them by their heads. Before the dogs could be called 

 off, the first two were instantly gored, and hurled over 

 a precipice. White said the goats stood their ground, 

 and tossed the dogs so quickly they could hardly realize 

 what had happened until they saw the dogs in the air, 

 bleeding from the wounds made by the horns of the 

 goats. When White and Chapman appeared, the goats 

 moved off. The remaining dogs were able to separate 

 the kids from the rest of the band, and finally they 

 caught five." 



It seems that sometimes goats kill each other. 



" Four years ago," continued Mr. Van Nostrand, " I 



