. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Arctic Animals 159 given on seeing an unskinned bear's head is that it has a large brain-cavity, but on cleaning the skull it is seen that the appearance is caused by the huge muscles used for moving the jaws. The polar bear is " a bit of a fool" is the conclusion one arrives at on examining the head closely, but a terrible fellow to bite, which is quite true. The belief that the polar bear hibernates is an erroneous one. I have shot numbers. of polar bears, both male long Arctic winter. in a lair deeply buried in
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Arctic Animals 159 given on seeing an unskinned bear's head is that it has a large brain-cavity, but on cleaning the skull it is seen that the appearance is caused by the huge muscles used for moving the jaws. The polar bear is " a bit of a fool" is the conclusion one arrives at on examining the head closely, but a terrible fellow to bite, which is quite true. The belief that the polar bear hibernates is an erroneous one. I have shot numbers. of polar bears, both male long Arctic winter. in a lair deeply buried in before and after bringing that time will touch no gestation, as a rule, is ness, this period of seclusion travellers for hibernation by lair is dumb-bell shaped end to end, with a narrow waist of the dumb-bell outside air. than two in number, weigh p,wt0 h,J Lewis Me*lana' *?*?*? . . & A CAPTIVE WALRUS, hail' IS Whiter than in the Taken at the London Zoo, wli , , rp, , ,, -, j remained only a lew days texture. Ihey show the bad an early age, and are intractable, ill-tempered little kindness has no softening influence. During one less than three bear-cubs living in the hut at one As time went on their uncouth behaviour increased place into a bedlam of noise—so much get no sleep night or day, and if any of across the room one of the little cubs " go for" him. We fed them on an extemporised feeding-bottle, which readily. is the great provider of regions, and of supply terrible monotony of been relieved by the great straw-coloured approaches from lee-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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