MAMMALS DANGEROUS TO HUMAN BEINGS IO5 



caught it in a trap and was trying to kill it. 13 An alleged "unprovoked" 

 attack of a "brown" bear upon two hunters in Yukon Territory oc- 

 curred when the hunters, with dogs, were approaching the carcass of a 

 moose upon which the bear was feeding, and which the big animal 

 naturally did not choose to give up without a struggle. 14 Baboons, 

 gorillas and orang-outangs are accused of attacking and injuring or 

 killing people, a subject discussed in a subsequent section on primates. 



M Skinner, Journ. Mammalogy, iv, 53, 1923. 



14 Bonebrake, Journ. Mammalogy, m, 185-186, 1922. Grinnell, ibid., iv, 52-53, 1923. 

 Sheldon, ibid., pp. 51-52. 



