. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TEE BROll'N BEAR. largely lierbivoroiis, some, such ;is the Polar Bear, would natvirally exi^ect a differfnce in the as we shall see, while most of them are wholly or are almost entirely of Hesh-eatiiig habits, and one Curiously enough, however, no such difference is api)arent. The Beai-s have five toes to each foot, all armed with long curved claws. In the skull the floor of the drum cavity of the ear is hardly at all dilated, so that there can scarcely be said to be a bulla tymjxmi at all; moreover, a bony passage of considerable
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TEE BROll'N BEAR. largely lierbivoroiis, some, such ;is the Polar Bear, would natvirally exi^ect a differfnce in the as we shall see, while most of them are wholly or are almost entirely of Hesh-eatiiig habits, and one Curiously enough, however, no such difference is api)arent. The Beai-s have five toes to each foot, all armed with long curved claws. In the skull the floor of the drum cavity of the ear is hardly at all dilated, so that there can scarcely be said to be a bulla tymjxmi at all; moreover, a bony passage of considerable length leads from the drum to the exterior, instead of the aperture being flush with the wall of the drum, in the Cats. As we have seen, the Cats have a small ca-cum, or blind process, to the intestine, and the Dogs one of considerable size. In the Bear this appendage is wholly absent. Bears are found over a large part of the world, in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and North Africa. They are, however, wholly absent from what is tenned trans-Saharal Africa, that is, the part of the continent south feet of iie.\u. of the great Sahara ; and are also not to be found in any part of the Australian region, or, in other words, in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the islands of the Malayan Archipelago east of Wallace's line. They thus have a far more restricted distribution than either i'j of tl}e other two chief families of Carnivora—the Felithe and Canida: THE COMJIOX BROWX BEAR.* The Brown Bear is the conMiionest member of the whole family, and lias been kno'wii from very early periods. It was, indeed, for a long time the only .species known to Liiuiffius, who recog- nised no other kind up to the tenth iNDEu \IE^^ or isnR ^ '~Ki 11 edition of his great work, when he .„''.Bgc,;i'ra.'..r.„".i"a.'..': " "-^' " ') ' \ iiai cloubtfully admitted the Polar Bear. The Brown Bear is found in many parts of Europe—Norway, Russi
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