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THE GREAT BEAR reconstructed in this massive statue is re- 

 garded by naturalists as the largest carnivorous mammal of 

 all time and is represented as having been at least one-third 

 larger than the huge Kodiak bear of the Aleutian Islands. 

 The mammal often is referred to as the short-faced bear. 

 Paleontologists identify the enormous, shaggy beast as 

 Arc/o(herium calUornicum, long extinct. Ninety-one per cent of 

 the Pleistocene mammals comprising the Hancock Collection 

 taken from Rancho La Brea were carnivores. 



