. Yellowstone National Park . who examines them at the exit. The only shots that can betaken at animals are with the camera. The schemes tried by camera enthusiasts are numerous andoften ludicrous. A recent writer states that the women devisemost wonderful plans. Some set traps in the woods in whichthe bait sets off flashlights, arranged just behind the instruments,and opens the shutter simultaneously, the hope being to getpictures of the wilder animals that prowl only during the is no other place in the world where the wild species of beaver can be seen asin Yellowstone. The Parki
. Yellowstone National Park . who examines them at the exit. The only shots that can betaken at animals are with the camera. The schemes tried by camera enthusiasts are numerous andoften ludicrous. A recent writer states that the women devisemost wonderful plans. Some set traps in the woods in whichthe bait sets off flashlights, arranged just behind the instruments,and opens the shutter simultaneously, the hope being to getpictures of the wilder animals that prowl only during the is no other place in the world where the wild species of beaver can be seen asin Yellowstone. The Parkis the only place wherethe bison still roam atlarge. There are severalherds, some confined inlarge areas for the purposeof infusing new blood intothem and some of theyoung secluded for pro-tection from the wildcarnivorous animals of thePark, the hope being thatthe bison species may beperpetuated. Bears are asplentiful in the Park asmonkeys in the tropics, andalmost as amusing. Theyare the scavengers aboutthe hotels. The refuse. Moonlight on Yellowstone Lake from the hostelries of the Park is deposited a couple of hundredyards from the houses, where the bears watch for their is the time the camera enthusiasts get their best shots, forthe bears refuse to be driven away until they have eaten to are sometimes grizzlies among them, but the silver-tip,black and cinnamon varieties are in the majority. The blacks aretame, but the cinnamon bears show fight if any attempt is madeto drive them away. When one of them becomes vicious, however,he is condemned and killed by the soldiers. Other animals thatprove dangerous, such as grey wolves, wild cats and mountainlions, are destroyed by the guards. Some of the hotels have builtwire fences part way around their rubbish piles, but these aremore for the protection of the bears than of the guests, the latterbeing too often tempted to mar the pleasure of bruins meal bystanding too near his food and passing uncomplimentary
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