2OO The Grizzly Bear 



We also know that the cubs must be at least two months 

 old when they emerge from the den. 



When the cubs are first born they are wee little chaps, 

 not larger than the common gray squirrel, and I do not 

 think that at the time of birth the size of the mother 

 makes any material difference as to the size of the cubs; 

 although I have reason to believe that, as is often the case 

 with other animals, when but a single cub is born to a 

 litter, it is likely to be larger than where there are two or 

 more. I have examined the little fellows shortly after 

 birth, and where the mothers differed greatly in size, but 

 the cubs were always of about the same weight. 



Adams, in describing the capture of Ben Franklin, 

 refers to the enormous size of the old mother and to the 

 smallness of the cubs, whose eyes were not yet open. He 

 says that he carried them both in his shirt front, and it will 

 be remembered that he put them to nurse to a greyhound 

 that happened to have puppies of about the same age, 

 and he says that the cubs were little, if any, larger than 

 the puppies whose places they usurped. 



As I had never actually weighed a young grizzly cub, 

 and as I had found that many persons unacquainted with 

 the facts in the case seemed to regard it as impossible that 

 the young of so large an animal should be so small, I 

 asked Dr. Hornaday whether he had ever weighed any 

 cubs born in captivity. He replied that "a grizzly cub, 

 which was born to our Colorado grizzly, 'Lady Washing- 

 ton,' on January 13, 1906, weighed eighteen ounces." 



A year or so later, on the evening of January 18, 1908, 

 while in New York City, I received word from Dr. 

 Hornaday that two cubs had just been born to a Rocky 



