five years of concerted efforts to kill or capture 

 him. There was a rich reward on his head. 



There are similar accounts of Clubfoot, Three- 

 Toes, and other outlaw grizzlies. All of these bears 

 slaughtered cattle by the hundreds in their home 

 territory, lived with heavy prices on their heads, 

 and for years outwitted skillful hunters and trap- 

 pers, escaping the well-organized posse again and 

 again. Knowing many of the hunters and their 

 skillful methods, and the repeated triumphs of 

 other grizzlies over combinations and new con- 

 trivances, I am convinced that the grizzly bear is 

 an animal who reasons. 



When in a trap or cornered, a wounded grizzly 

 sometimes feigns death. Apparently he considers 

 his situation desperate and sees in this method the 

 possibility of throwing his assailant off guard. Con- 

 sidering that need of feigning death is recent, 

 since the arrival of the white man with high- 

 power rifle and insidious steel trap, this strategy 

 appears like a clear case of reasoning. 



The grizzly is difficult to anticipate. His strategy 



usually defeats the hunter. One wounded bear may 



at once charge the hunter; the next may run from 



him ; and the third may hold the ground defiantly. 



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