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OEDERS OF MAMMALS— FLESH-EATERS 



very confusing fact about the Black Bear is the 

 frequency with which it runs into brown or 

 cinnamon colors. Sometimes black and brown 

 cubs have been found in the same litter. Very 

 curiously, however, this color is found only in 

 the Rocky Mountains, and farther west. In its 



round on the hind quarters, low at the shoulders, 

 and also by the fact that in walking it usually 

 carries its head low. It is a smaller animal, and 

 its claws are short and well adapted to tree-climb- 

 ing. It conceals itself from its enemies much 

 more successfully than the grizzly, and therefore 



brown phase, this animal is called the Cinnamon still survives in such places as the forests of the 



GLACIER BEAR. 

 Drawn from a specimen in the United States National Museum. 



Bear, and in the Rocky Mountain regions and 

 Alaska, brown specimens are almost as numerous 

 as black. Sometimes it is difficult to believe 

 that both kinds belong to the same species, but 

 this seems to be a fact. 



Some grizzlies are very dark brown, but thev 

 are never inky black, like the true Black Bear. 

 The latter differs in form from the grizzly in 

 being highest in the middle of the back, very 



Adirondacks, the Catskills, in West Virginia, 

 and the swamps of the southern states. 



When properly treated, small Black Bears are 

 good-tempered and playful in captivity; and 

 some are easily tamed, and taught to perform 

 tricks. Cubs are very interesting when small, 

 but by the time they are a year old, they become 

 so strong and troublesome, as well as dangerous, 

 that private owners nearly always are heartily 



