LUTHER BURBANK 
Brought to the salmon stream, however, there 
was not an instant of delay; it glanced about, 
located a natural point of vantage, straddled the 
brook with its face down-stream, and bending 
over, with upraised right paw, waited for the 
salmon to come. 
It did, unhesitatingly, just what any normal 
wild-raised bear would have done. 
With wonderful dexterity it was able to scoop 
the onrushing salmon out of the stream and to 
throw them in an even pile on the bank with a 
single motion. 
As other bears would do, this domesticated 
bruin stood over the stream until it had accumu- 
lated a considerable pile of the salmon on the 
bank. 
Going to this pile it quickly sorted over the 
fish, making now two piles instead of one—with 
all the male salmon in one pile, and all the female 
salmon in the other. 
Then, with its sharp claw, it proceeded to split 
open the female salmon and to extract the roe, 
which it ate with relish. This consumed, it 
finished its meal on the other meat of the fish. 
Untaught, it recognized salmon as food; dis- 
tinguished males from females; knew the roe as 
a delicacy. Unpracticed, it knew, instantly, just 
how to fish for salmon and how to find the roe. 
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