BEAR 



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BEAR 



in any zoo, no matter how small it may be; 

 and third, they are easily trained and taught 

 to do many simple things. 



Appearance and Habits. Bears are shaggy 

 beasts, much like huge dogs, but they have 

 more- massive bodies, broader heads, and teeth 

 fitted for grinding as well as for tearing. Their 

 bodies look more bulky than they really are, 

 by reason of the loose skin, long, coarse hair 

 and short legs; and since they walk flat on 

 <oles of their feet instead of on their toes, 

 they have none of the lightness and graceful- 

 ness of movement which distinguishes other 



tected farms, fish, grubs and eggs are most 

 attractive, but if tlu x are not at hand fruits, 

 nuts, herbs and roots form a satisfactory sub- 

 stitute; and honey appeals so strongly to their 

 taste that they will risk netting well stung in 

 order to make a meal of it. Their sense of 

 smell is very well developed; hearing, mod- 

 erately so; but their little eyes do not serve 

 them will. 



Unlike the wolves and foxes, the bears do 

 not live and hunt in packs. Kipling in his 

 Jungle Book was true to nature when he gave 

 to his wolves the "law of the pack," but made 



Pdar Bear 



3EAR 



Head of 



Grizzly 



Bear 



Black Bear 



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flesh-eaters the dog family and tin- cat fam- 

 ily, for instance. But 

 apparent rath, r than real, for they can D 

 very rapidly, over either smooth mound or 

 Steep and daiiu. rous rocks, of thriii 



climb a tnc \\ith astonishinn ea- and 



IlilliMene.ss. This. hnu< .1 true of the 



irn// Inch is not a rlnni 



classed as flesh-rat mi: animals, 

 thouuh thry : titCS 



and can eat almost anything. Small animals 

 of the woods, lambs and little pigs from unpro- 



hi< Kreat bear a solitary creature. A bear fam- 

 ily has its cave in some rock crevice, under 

 heavy brush, or in a hollow tree, and tin-re 

 they spend tin- \\int. r. not exactly torpid, but 

 half asleep and n. . dnm httlr if any food. In 

 tin vpnnu the ynimn ones, usually two in nuin- 

 hr mother takes the ni 



eat care of these until th. !> large 



CUb. Th. Tr al'r f< \V animals l!llr daim<T<>US 



to mi-it than a m>th r bear anL'i.d by any 

 injury dnnr t<> h. r . 



In -pit. of much that is said to the con- 



