Grizzly Bear 
Grizzly Bear 
Ursus hornibilis Ord 
Length. 6 feet 6 inches. 
Description. Fur shaggy, especially long on the shoulders and 
flanks; front claws much longer than the hind ones, and strongly 
curved; hind foot relatively longer than in the black bear. 
Brownish-yellow; darker on the back and legs; long hair, 
often reddish-brown. 
Range. Rocky Mountains of Utah to Alaska. Closely related 
varieties occur in the Southern Rockies and at Norton Sound, 
Alaska, while a smaller ally, the Barren-ground bear, U. rich- 
ardsoni Reid, ranges from Hudson’s Bay to the Mackenzie and 
northward. 
The grizzly bear is a great rough brute, heavy and lumbering, 
and easily the largest and most ferocious bear to be found in 
any part of the world. At the present day, however, he seldom 
ventures to attack man except in self-defense. In the land where 
grizzlies are found, only those beasts have survived that excelled 
in keeping out of sight. Wildness has therefore of late years 
served the grizzly better than strength and courage in the 
struggle for existence. He still finds his great muscles useful 
in the matter of getting a living; there is nothing lives in his 
country that the grizzly cannot kill and carry away, with the 
possible exception of the cougar. Indians and certain old-time 
hunters claim that the cougar will attack and kill a full-grown 
grizzly; but beyond their stories there seems to be no evidence 
whatever that a cougar ever killed a grizzly that was too old to 
be called a cub. 
In the earlier days the grizzly bear regularly hunted the 
bison among the foot-hills of the Rockies. 
It is said that one was able to kill and drag off an old 
bull bison weighing one thousand pounds or more. 
At the present time, when the grizzly wishes to go after 
big game he generally hunts the horses and cattle owned by 
the herders, and so gets himself disliked. He also hunts deer 
and wapiti, and in the most northern part of his range an occa- 
sional moose. 
But he lives to a large extent on much humbler fare; ram- 
bling among the crags, with low-hung swinging head, he listens 
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