Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1920 — GIVES GRIZZLY HIGHEST RANK [ARTICLE]

GIVES GRIZZLY HIGHEST RANK

Writer Deplores General Idea That the Anlnjal Is of Coarse and Crude Temperament A grizzly has supersensitive ears, and loud, harsh sounds give his nerves a harrowing shock. Through his higher development the grizzly probably sAiffers more Intensely and enjoys more fully than other animals. The clashing city noises must be a neverending Irritation and torture to a bear who has been sentenced to end his days In a riotous environment How he must yearn for the hush of the wilderness ! And, as his sense of smell is also amazingly developed, perhaps- he longs for a whiff of pine-spiced air and the wild, exquisite perfume of the violets. Experience in many zoos had shown that subjecting caged grizzlies to close contact with people is usually cruelty to animals. Often they become cross, and a number of crowd-worried grizzlies have died prematurely from resultant apoplexy. Modern zoo bear pens are constructed so that the bear Is beyond the wiles of visitors —so that he can have much privacy—one of the needs of any grizzly. Perhaps we too often think of the bulky grizzly as being coarse and A-ude. But he Is an animal of the highest type, sensitive, independent and retiring. The normal bear is good tempered and .cheerful. —Enos A. Mills in “The Grizzly, Our Greatest Wild Animal."