WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS IN THE NORTHWEST 
G. O. SHIELDS. 
It is a fact well known to all naturalists 
that wild animals and birds adapt them- 
selves to their environment and that the 
habits of a given species in one locality 
can not be taken as a guide to what indi- 
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cially a meat eater, and his depredations 
on live stock have resulted in large boun- 
ties being offered for his destruction in the 
cattle States. In Western Canada _ the 
grizzly can rarely be induced to eat meat. 
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viduals of the same species may do in an- 
other section. I saw many evidences of 
this in my sojourn in the Canadian Rockies 
last summer. The various species of bear 
found in the Western States are fond of 
meat of any kind. The grizzly is espe- 
Trappers kill goats, sheep, moose, caribou 
and smaller animals to bait their bear traps 
with, but they seldom succeed in taking a 
bear with any such bait. The grizzly of 
that region subsists almost entirely on 
vegetable food. He is fond of bulbous and 
