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gnawing down a tree. Many a time I have seen the 

 fresh tracks of a mother and her cubs on the muddy 

 shore of a beaver pond, and sometimes the tracks 

 of both black bears and grizzlies. 



In the course of miles of daily wandering the 

 grizzly may occasionally come upon a wounded 

 animal or a carcass. If his find be large, he may lie 

 close until it is consumed ; or he may make a cache 

 of it, returning again and again until it is eaten. 

 Grizzlies will bury an elk in the earth or cover the 

 carcass of a cow with numbers of logs. Nothing is 

 more common than for them to cover a carcass 

 with refuse consisting of twigs, fallen leaves, grass, 

 and trash. They will cover a quantity of fish with 

 stones and logs. 



A few grizzlies become cattle-killers; many griz- 

 zlies eat cattle they did not kill. On the live-stock 

 ranges in the mountains of the West cattle die from 

 many causes. They succumb to disease and to ac- 

 cidents. Winds proclaim carcass news and a feast 

 to flesh-eaters near and far. Bears have amazingly 

 keen noses and often are the first to enjoy the 

 feast. 



A grizzly I was following caught the scent of a car- 

 cass that was more than a mile away. He stopped 



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