WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



how they had got up there, though, apparently, 

 their coming was comparatively recent. I suppose 

 that instinct warned them to retreat before the 

 advance of civilisation in the lower country. One 

 wonders whether they will become acclimatised to the 

 new conditions. Unfortunately, in most cases like this 

 the race tends to become infertile, and eventually dies 

 out completely. On their dams I saw numbers of wild 

 duck. Bears, too, were plentiful as usual. Several 

 times, when passing from one densely-wooded ravine 

 to the next, we got into tight corners through running 

 into she-bears with cubs. When you come to close 

 quarters with an angry mother, who suddenly stands 

 up on her hind feet with the obvious intention of 

 teaching you not to intrude, there is a strong temptation 

 to let the camera and everything else go, and ride off 

 at top speed. It is wonderful how big and ugly a bear 

 can look in such circumstances. 



In the end, however, we arrived safely at Dick 

 Randall's shooting-box, which, needless to say, is 

 outside the Park. We camped there for the night, 

 which gave me an opportunity of studying the ways 

 of wolves. It came about in this way. My host had 

 a fox-terrier, which made friends with me at once, 

 and I was playing with him outside the house when a 

 wolf, or coyote, gave vent to a most appalling howl. 

 Immediately the dog — as plucky a little fellow as ever 

 I saw — started off barking, with the manifest intention 



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