. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. i 1 ^'fi ii ! l'. â I I-i ill ^' '-l b; I 1,1 S J. 1084 Life-histories of Northern Animals " Bears make prodigious ravages in the brush and willows. The plum-trees are torn to pieces, and every tree that bears fruit has shared the same fate; the tops of the oaks are also very roughly handled, broken, and torn down to get the acorns. The havoc they commit is astounding; their dung lies about in the woods as plentiful as that of the Buffalo in the
. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. i 1 ^'fi ii ! l'. â I I-i ill ^' '-l b; I 1,1 S J. 1084 Life-histories of Northern Animals " Bears make prodigious ravages in the brush and willows. The plum-trees are torn to pieces, and every tree that bears fruit has shared the same fate; the tops of the oaks are also very roughly handled, broken, and torn down to get the acorns. The havoc they commit is astounding; their dung lies about in the woods as plentiful as that of the Buffalo in the ; Autumn arriving with its showers of beechnuts, acorns, and other such food, gives all wild creatures a notable chance to gather for the coming cold. All work hard to profit by the opportunity, storing inside their skins or dens as their custom may be, and none work harder or more successfully than the Bear. It labours without ceasing till nature comes with the snow-clouds and abnormally ends the feast by spreading th( white cloth. But the Bear has no notion of quitting the delights of active life for the dull monotony of a winter's sleep any sooner than possible, and, roaming still in search of food, is often led into mischief, killing on such occasions calves and sheep in the field or even pigs in the sty. At such times it i:as even been guilty of cannibalism. George Crawford (Mittigwab), an Indian of Kipnewa, told me of a case that he observed on the Upper Ottawa, about 1890. He tracked a very big Bear in the snow to where it had hunted out another that was already denned up, and had devoured it all but the jaws. The big fellow had feasted for two days, sleeping in the den of the victim, and coming out only to eat or else to drop dung, of which there was an immense quantity outside. Colder weather, deeper snow, and scarcer food at length unite in peremptory order to the Bearsâ* Go now and den for a time.* First to obey are the females, that must have a good abode sui
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