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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
BLACK BEAR FROM ANTICOSTI ISLAND 
Presented to the Zoological Park by Senator Gaston Meniet of Paris. 
Photograph by Elwin R. Sanborn. 
A REMARKABLE BLACK BEAR 
L AST July, Mr. Georges Martin-Zede, Gen- 
I eral Manager of Anticosti Island,—which 
now is wholly owned by Senator Gaston 
Menier, of Paris,—caught in a box trap a very 
large and fine male black bear. It is marked 
by a muzzle that is particularly white and 
noticeable. Senator Menier presented the ani¬ 
mal to the Zoological Society, and it reached 
the Park in September. 
This is the finest American black bear that 
ever came to us. Its net weight on arrival 
was 635 pounds; but at that time is was notice¬ 
ably under its normal weight. It rapidly took 
on flesh, and now' must be about fifty pounds 
heavier. 
This fine animal is an interesting psychologi¬ 
cal exhibit of philosophy in a bear. From the 
day of his capture he never has been angry at 
man! On the second day after he was trapped 
he ate from Mr. Martin-Zede’s hand, and in all 
his shipping and handling he has been uniformly 
and persistently patient and good-natured. He 
acts as if he had been in captivity all his life; 
and in a newly captured adult bear this state of 
mind is really astounding. 
The only departure from this serenity of 
temper occurred when he became peeved at 
one of the Alaskan brown bears in the cage ad¬ 
joining his. Then he snorted his displeasure. 
Quite as we expected, he went into hibernation 
in January, but he remained incommunicado 
for only three weeks. TV. T. H. 
GERMAN ZOOS RUINED 
A RECENT visitor from Germany, deeply 
interested in zoological institutions, ad¬ 
vanced some very interesting information 
concerning the Zoological Gardens of that coun¬ 
try. No other nation in the world was so well 
supplied with “zoos” as pre-war Germany. 
Every municipality that made any pretentions 
whatever, had Its vivarium, which often was 
the center of the social life of the town. 
