GRIZZLY BEAR TALES.
ANIMAL'S GREAT STRENGTH.
VANCOUVER, December 3
Jim Brewster, veteran bear -hunter of Banff, has been telling some stories of his experiences with Canadian grizzlies. He has killed more than fifty of them, and Brewster .states quite positively that a grizzly never stands erect when he makes his charge. He approaches his prey, or his enemy, on all fours.
According to this hunter a grizzly ordinarily will not attack a human being. If he is not wounded he will run away. But when wounded he flies into a terrific rage and literally he is afraid of nothing. If the hunter seeks refuge in a tree he should choose a stout one. The grizzly cannot climb, but he will do his best to shake the hunter down, and Brewster has seen him dig savagely at the roots of a tree sheltering an enemy..
The strength of the grizzly, Brewster says, is "well-nigh incredible." He has seen a bear of this species, in search of grubs, turn over with one paw rocks or logs that several men would have difficulty in moving.
Brewster tells of a Vancouver hunter who shot a grizzly weighing 1500 pounds and measuring eleven feet two inches from tip to tip.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 10
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