BEARS AND BEAVERS IN FRANCE.
Bears are still found in France, their chief haunt being the primeval forest of Combe d'lre, Lake Annecy, in the Alps. Summer tourists in that forest never see tiaem, because they are then high up the mountains, and only come down from tiaem when the snows cover the wild fruits on which they feast. Another of their haunts is the forest .of Doussard. From 1867 to 1893 only nine were killed. The French bear is very large and powerful, with a red-dish-grey fur, which is valuable as a rug. To the fist of fur-bearing animals in France must be added the beaver of the Rhone. Very few iof them are left, but steps ihave been taken to preserve them from extinction, and even exploit them for their p«ltfl. -
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7087, 1 May 1901, Page 2
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