THE BLACK BEARS 
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in the United States during the last fifteen years 
has been between 500 and 600 pounds. 
In all parts of the United States save the Yel- 
lowstone Park and the Clearwater Mountains of 
Idaho, the Grizzly is now a rare animal, and so 
difficult to find that it is almost useless to seek 
it this side of British Columbia. Like other 
large mammals of this continent, the long-range, 
high-power rifles leave them absolutely no chance 
but is quite unable to climb trees. Like all other 
bears, he eats nearly everything he can chew, and 
is very partial to berries, and fruit of all kinds. 
The Black Bears. 
The Black Bear 1 is the best known bear 
in North America. It is found in nearly all the 
mountains and great tracts of forest between 
Photo, by E. R. Sanborn, N. Y. Zoological Park. 
AMERICAN BLACK BEAR 
From northern Wisconsin. 
for their lives, and in a short time none will exist 
in the United States outside of the Yellowstone 
Park and the zoological gardens. In the wilds of 
Alaska, they may survive for perhaps a quarter 
of a century longer. Unfortunately, the Griz- 
zly loves to roam over treeless mountains, on 
which his huge bulk makes him conspicuous for 
miles, and invites the attacks of his enemies. He 
loves water, swims well, and is a great traveller, 
Florida and Alaska, and from Nova Scotia to 
the Pacific coast. During the past twenty years 
it has been seen or killed in forty states of the 
United States, in Mexico, Alaska, and eleven 
of the British provinces. Its farthest south is 
the mountains of Costa Rica. 
Its standard color is jet black, all over, except 
the nose, which is dirty white or light brown. A 
1 Ur'sus a-mer-i-can'us. 
