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That the latter should not only be able to subsist, but even to nurse her 
offspring, without receiving herself any food for such a length of time, 
is highly improbable. When with young, however, it is allowed that they 
are exceedingly fat, as also that, being covered with a very thick coat, sleep- 
ing the greater part of their time, and giving themselves no exercise or 
motion, they must necessarily lose very little by perspiration. 
Though the males of the brown species devour their new-born little ones, 
when they find an opportunity for it, yet the females seem, on the contrary, 
to love them with a ferocious distraction. When once they have brought 
forth, their fury is more violent, as well as more dangerous, than that of 
the males. Before the young leave the womb, their formation is perfect - 
and if the foetus of the bear appears at the first glance unformed, it is 
merely because there is a want of proportion in the body and members even 
of the grown bear, and because, which is well known to be the case in all 
animals, the foetus, or the new-born animal, is always more disproportioned 
than the grown animal. 
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The voice of the bear is a kind of grow], a harsh murmur, which, when 
enraged especially, is heightened by a clashing of the teeth. Highly 
susceptible of anger, that anger is always furious, and often capricious. 
However mild he may appear before his master, and even obedient when 
tamed, he ought still to be distrusted, still treated with circumspection ; 
nor, on any account, must he be struck on the tip of the nose, or touched on © 
the parts of generation. 
