Bears as Predators ~

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California Grizzly by Tracy I. Storer and Lloyde P. Tevis Jr. - 1955. 
The adversaries that the grizzlies met in the arena were not the stolid, domesticated Herefords commonly seen on the California range today but were "the lithe, thick-necked Spanish bulls, sharp of horn, quick of foot, always ready for a fight, and with a charge like that of a catapult" ( Kingsley, 1920 ). These bulls, combining weight, speed, agility, and sharpness of horn with bad temper, were exceedingly dangerous to both man and bear. Wistar ( 1937 ) called the Spanish bull the noblest game in America, with the possible exception of the... California grizzly. He knows no fear, and shrinks from no enemy, having been accustomed all his life to fighting his rivals and other formidable animals, and when surrounded by his family is always spoiling for a fight. He will come a mile for his enemy, and will as lief charge a hundred men as one. Reply