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[b][b][b][b][b]   [b]Polar asks: [b]I've heard about Monarch the Californian Grizzly. Isn't he the one that fought off several lions and Californian bulls? (Not Parnell the Grizzly.) 
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[b]Actually, I believe that such animal combat in the USA might have already been illegal at this time, except offshore on a barge. This is why Ramadam fought Parnell in Mexico. As for that historic fight, and I hope I'm not bending the rules here too much. There have been two-separate versions of that story floating around. But the true story, the original telling is written in the original news article which is hanging on the wall of the California State Capital in Sacramento. The fight took place in Monterrey, Mexico in 1895. The story is in the book, California Grizzly published well before the online debates; 1955. - Bell ( 1930 : 106 ) mentioned a fight staged in Mexico between a grizzly and a lion that had been imported from Africa: "When a few years ago, a Los Angeles County grizzly was sent to Monterrey, Mexico, to be pitted against the man-killing African lion 'Parnell' the great Californian handled the African king as a cat would a rat. He killed him so quickly that the big audience hardly knew how it was done." 
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[b]...Now, let me say this. Such a staged battle of two captive animals, both of which have been caged and have traveled really proves nothing at all. We know nothing of their age, physical or mental condition, or how they have been treated and fed. What does peeve me is the "other version" created for the now rarely-seen on-line animal face-off debates. We will not find the "other version" in any book predating 1980.   [/b]
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