. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America . Natural history. 38 ORDERS OF MAMMALS—FLESH-EATERS acknowledges no superior. A small Grizzly cub which we once set free in a mixed company of five or six bears of other species, all of which were larger than he, boldly stalked into the centre of the group, with an air of conscious superiority and courage that was both characteristic and amusing. It was the other bears who were frightened, not he! Specimens of this species are readily recog- very gray. The huge brown Grizzly of southern Ca
. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America . Natural history. 38 ORDERS OF MAMMALS—FLESH-EATERS acknowledges no superior. A small Grizzly cub which we once set free in a mixed company of five or six bears of other species, all of which were larger than he, boldly stalked into the centre of the group, with an air of conscious superiority and courage that was both characteristic and amusing. It was the other bears who were frightened, not he! Specimens of this species are readily recog- very gray. The huge brown Grizzly of southern California, now very rare, has been described as a species distinct from the Rocky Moun- tain Silver-Tip. I once measured the dry skin of one of these animals, which was 9 feet 4 inches in length, and 10 feet 3 inches wide across the shoulders, between the ends of the front claws. So far as I am aware, the largest Grizzly Bear. Copyright, 1902, by F. C. Wolcott. A GRIZZLY BEAR AT HOME. Photographed in the mountains of western Wyoming, by F. C. Wolcott. The bear was enticed by a bait to within thirty feet of the camera, and taken by flashlight. nized by their high shoulders, powerful pro- portions, grizzly-gray hair, and long curved claws. The standard color (in winter) is brown next to the skin, the extremities of the hair being tipped with silvery gray, from which has come the common name of "; From Mexico and southern California to the Yukon valley, especially along the main ranges of the Rocky Mountains, the Grizzly shows about six different shades of color, from brown to sil- ever actually weighed was one that lived and died in the Lincoln Park menagerie, Chicago, and was weighed by Mr. G. O. Shields. Its weight was 1,153 pounds; yet when alive, west- ern hunters who saw it frankly admitted that it was larger than bears killed by them which they "estimated" at 1,800 pounds! Thus far the Rocky Mountains have not produced a wild Grizzly actually
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