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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



I Ml'. lil-.AK SKINS AND IHh ClI) 



Iii Wisconsin automobiles may be seized when 

 it is believed they contain game illegally in 

 possession. 



California now prohibits the sale of aigrettes, 

 birds of paradise and goura or numidi. 



Wyoming has added six new game preserves 

 to its total, making eleven in all. 



Indiana is giving greater protection to the 

 squirrel. 



BEHAVIOR OF WILD GRIZZLY (LBS.* 



Contributed By a Member of the Zoological 

 Society. 



LAST May when I was out bear hunting in 

 the Rocky Mountains, one of our party 

 shot a female grizzly with three cubs. We 

 had no dogs, as they are not allowed in bear 

 hunting in Wyoming, so the cubs escaped. We 

 skinned the mother and left the carcass lying 

 where she fell, hoping the cubs would return on 

 that account, but though we visited it every day. 

 we found no trace of them for about three 

 weeks. 



Then the warm weather came and the carcass 

 ripened and the three little cubs returned to 

 feed upon it. We tried to rope them several 



*The most interesting feature of this unusual in- 

 stance of bear behavior is the failure of the two 

 cubs to recognize the dead body of their mother, and 

 their keenness in recognizing her furry coat. — Ed. 



times, but they were so very small and so very 

 quick and the trees so dense that this proved 

 futile, but we eventually caught one in a trap 

 made out of a box. He was quite fierce, but 

 .after bis paws were tied together and a stick 

 and rope put through his mouth for a gag, he 

 became fairly docile. 



He traveled quietly on the back of a horse 

 for several hours until, as we reached camp, he 

 started squealing and struggling violently, and 

 upon being released, made a dash, pulling after 

 him the men who were holding him towards the 

 four bear hides we had strung on a rope near 

 the tents. Still crying, he jumped upon that of 

 his mother, and clung to it with his teeth and 

 claws so firmly that we could only remove him 

 eventually by hitting him gently hut decidedly 

 over the head with a stick. 



About a week later we caught one of the other 

 cubs, a little female, and exactly the same per- 

 formance was repeated. We kept them in camp 

 about two weeks, and their only happy moments 

 were when clinging contentedly to. or cuddled 

 up upon, their mother's hide. — the hide of the 

 mother they had eaten witli so mucli pleasure 

 and appetite, — where they would spend quiet, 

 peaceful hours every day. As soon as taken 

 away, they would cry and fight, even when la- 

 ken half a mile from the camp so that we could 

 sleep at night, and no amount of food and kind- 

 ness were ever able to tame them. We endeav- 



