Wilderness Reserves 



and then feast upon whatever was left behind. 

 When a bear begins to act in this way or to* show 

 surliness it is sometimes necessary to shoot it. 

 Other bears are tamed until they will feed out of 

 the hand, and will come at once if called. Not 

 only have some of the soldiers and scouts tamed 

 bears in this fashion, but occasionally a chamber- 

 maid or waiter girl at one of the hotels has thus 

 developed a bear as a pet. 



The accompanying photographs not only show 

 bears very close up, with men standing by within 

 a few yards of them, but they also show one bear 

 being fed from the piazza by a cook, and another 

 standing beside a particular friend, a chambermaid 

 in one of the hotels. In these photographs it will 

 be seen that some are grizzlies and some black 

 bears. 



This whole episode of bear life in the Yellow- 

 stone is so extraordinary that it will be well worth 

 while for any man who has the right powers and 

 enough time, to make a complete study of the life 

 and history of the Yellowstone bears. Indeed, noth- 

 ing better could be done by some one of our out- 

 door faunal naturalists than to spend at least a 

 year in the Yellowstone, and to study the life habits 

 of all the wild creatures therein. A man able to do 

 this, and to write down accurately and interest- 



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