Survival Skills of Bears

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The Grizzly, Our Greatest Wild Animal by Enos Abijah Mills.
This is rather lengthy, so I will not hand-copy the entire story. But, Enos Mills is telling about numerous cases of how a grizzly will sometimes take precautions of hiding his footprints. I know of no other animal who does this. Most predators hunt more by scent that by site. But, being the 'thinkers' that they are, some grizzlies have figured out that man is a site-hunter and that he looks for footprints. 
Here are some quotes: Then he traveled on a short distance to another small area. Doubling in his tracks, he came back for one hundred feet or so in the trail he had thus made. Working toward his first trail, he hid his tracks by leaping among fallen timbers and bushes, and at last made a leap into his first trail by the bowlder, where he made many tracks in the snow. Along this trail he traveled east again a short distance, stepped precisely in his former footprints. Out of this trail he leaped upon the top of a low, snowless bowlder on the right, and from this upon another bowlder. He walked along a bare fallen log. Here I must have searched more than two hours before detecting two or three broken sticks, which gave me a clew to the direction he had taken. From the log he walked upon a cross log and then plunged through fifty or sixty feet of thicket which showed no trail. From where he had emerged on the farther side of the thicket there was little by which to trace him for the next quarter of a mile. Reply