136 THE MINDS AND MANNERS 



avoids the water in his swimming pool, almost as much as any 

 burned child dreads fire. Throughout the hottest months of 

 midsummer old Silver King lies on the rock floor of his huge 

 and handsome den, grouching and grumbling, and not more than 

 once a week enjoying a swim in his spacious pool. No other 

 polar bear of ours ever manifested such an aversion for water. 

 The other polar bears who have occupied that same den loved 

 that pool beyond compare, and used to play in its waters for 

 hours at a time. Evidently the chase of Silver King through 

 green arctic water and over ice floes, mile after mile, his final 

 lassoing, and the drag behind a motor boat to the ship were, 

 to old Silver King, a terrible tragedy. Now he regards all 

 deep water as a trap to catch bears, but, strange to relate, the 

 winter's snow and ice seem to renew his interest in his swimming 

 pool. Occasionally he is seen at play in the icy water, and toy- 

 ing with pieces of ice. 1 



Memory in Bears. I think that ordinarily bear memory 

 for human faces and voices is not long. Once I saw Mr. William 

 Lyman Underwood test the memory of a black bear that for 

 eighteen months had been his household pet and daily com- 

 panion. After a separation of a year, which the bear spent in 

 a public park near Boston, Mr. Underwood approached, alone, 

 close up to the bars of his cage. He spoke to him in the old 

 way, and called him by his old name, but the bear gave abso- 

 lutely no sign of recognition or remembrance. 



How a Wild Grizzly Bear Caches Food. The silver- 

 tip grizzly bear of the Rocky Mountains has a mental trait and 

 a corresponding habit which seems to be unique in bear char- 

 acter. It is the habit of burying food for future use. Once I 

 had a rare opportunity to observe this habit. It was in the 

 Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, in the month of Septem- 

 ber (1905), while bears were very active. 



Mr. John M. Phillips and I shot two large white goats, one 

 of which rolled down a steep declivity and out upon the slide- 

 rock, where it was skinned. The flensed body of the other was 



