32 the grizzly bear. 
j and a finer and thicker hair underneath. The ibex, when taken 
J young and brought up with domestic goats, is easily tamed, im- 
j bibes the same peculiarities and herd together. 
/^HE Grizzly Bear inhabits, principally, the northern part of 
1 1 , America, but is found in greater numbers in the neighbor- 
hood of the Rocky Mountains, where, on its ‘ native heath,’ 
it reigns as supreme as does tne don in the sandy wastes of Afri- 
ca. Its muscular strength is so great that few animals of the 
forest or the plains care to have any dealings with him at close 
quarters — not excepting the bison, who is a foe worthy of his 
hug. In size, the grizzly bear is about double that of the black 
bear, although, in general appearance, they resemble each other. 
Its feet are enormously large — the breadth of the fore foot ex- 
ceeding nine inches, and the length of the hind one, exclusive of 
the talons, being eleven inches, and its breadth seven. The color 
of its hair varies from a light grey to a dark brown — the latter 
shade being predominant. However, it is always, in some de- 
gree, qualified by an intermixture of greyish hairs, the brown 
hairs only being tipped with grey. Its hair i,s longer, finer, and 
THE GRIZZLY BEAR. 
