Survival Skills of Bears

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California's Day of the Grizzly by William B. Secrest.

Fresno Morning Republican, Dec 7, 1919.

Here was an animal of omnivorous habit and hence well prepared for getting some sort of usable food almost anywhere he might go. Of tremendous strength which enabled a larger individual bear to kill a horse or an ox at one blow and to drag it away for storage. Of astonishing dexterity, which enabled him to pick up with claws as if with chop sticks, individual ants from beneath an overturned log or boulder. Of such quickness that he could catch trout from a stream or ground squirrels from a burrow. Of such speed that he could outrun a horse for short distances on level ground and long distances on rough ground. And of such tenacity of life that he has been repeatedly reported as fighting for some time after being shot through the heart. Having all these things in his favor, why should he disappear from earth in less than half a century? There are several reasons, the most important of which center on that enemy of nature, civilized man. Reply