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four-quarters of the same. At any rate, it is not a race 

 habit. One grizzly in the neighboring hills will suddenly 

 turn cattle eater, and come by stealth to satisfy his crav- 

 ing, just as one tiger near a jungle village will turn " man- 

 eater" and come by night to seek for victims. When 

 the guilty grizzly is slain the incident is closed. 



James Capen Adams gives a most interesting descrip- 

 tion of ridding a California ranch of one of these depre- 

 dating bears, and I have myself known of several in- 

 stances where such losses were only stopped by killing 

 the thief One of these argues well the tremendous 

 muscular power of these animals. I know one of the 

 men who watched for and killed the bear, and he told 

 me that when, after waiting several nights, the grizzly 

 finally appeared, they let it have its way before shooting, 

 in order to learn its method of attack. It stole up close 

 to a nearly full-grown heifer and then, in a sudden spring, 

 threw one fore paw across her neck, placed the other on 

 her muzzle, and drawing up one hind leg with a single 

 backward shove of its great claws, not only disembowelled 

 her, but tore out all her ribs on that side. 



Nevertheless, the grizzly does not, as far as my obser- 

 vations go, hunt for wild game. In certain parts of the 

 country, where there are plenty of elk and deer, he, as 

 I have already mentioned, depends on them to a large 

 extent for his food supply; but — they must first be killed 

 by the hunter or meet death in some other way, such as 

 being winter killed. The grizzly declines to do his own 

 butchering. 



Often, in British Columbia, I have sat and watched a 

 grizzly bear and a little porcupine feeding side by side 



