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tion purposes, nor should any zoological garden be allowed to trap 

 breeding females for stocking its dens. Every effort should be 

 made by the staff to preserve the few^ grizzlies still remaining in the 

 Park and to encourage them to live wholly within the Park and rear 

 their offspring there. At the same time we should try to secure their 

 protection in all the surrounding- National Forests. Under presen; 

 conditions they are in danger of sudden extermination. Last season, 

 grizzlies came to only two out of the ten or eleven garbage dumps 

 where black bears feed regularly, namely at Canyon and Lake 

 Hotels, and the rangers who had these two dumps in cha rge reporte.d 

 in all only some 25 individuals during the whole season as visiting" 

 the dumps. Under these circumstances it is surely high time that 

 the Park Service grant no more permits for the slaughter or capture 

 of grizzlies. An effort should at once be made by the management 

 to guard them most strictly until they becomeinore generally dis- 

 tributed over the reserved area, so that they can daily visit most of 

 the garbage dumps and be seen by a majority of the tourists instead 

 of b}^ only a few. Some day we may thus have a surplus of grizzlies 

 in the Yellowstone Park, and when that happy time arrives a fevN' 

 of the bears may be legitimately captured for zoological gardens 

 and museums. 



BLACK, BROWN OR CINNAMON BEAR 



Ursiis auiericauns Pallas 



There is no more appealing- animal in the Park than the black 

 bear. His is a popularity based on his friendship for man, and is 

 well deserved. His gentleness and confidence in the people he meet?; 

 with (see figs. 56, 57) and his diurnal habits and love of camps and 

 hotels, makes him an easily found and observed animal. The black 

 bear is the only large mammal that is seen and photographed by many 

 visitors, for the deer and elk though more abundant are timid forest 

 folk, and the grizzly is a nocturnal rambler and very seldom seen 

 in broad daylight. The most marvelous bit of animal psycholog}' 

 I noted in Yellowstone Park was the intelligence displayed by the 

 black bears in their not unfriendly advances toward man and the 

 sagacious manner in which they accept his proff'erings of food (fig. 

 58). They are better mannered and more reserved in the presence 

 of food than even that noble animal the dog. The display of 

 restraint necessary to keep in check a hunger-born instinct to rob 

 and take bv force the food off'ered them at arm's length bv weak. 



