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befoie be is ready for his long
winter’s sleep. In September,
October and the early part of
November all bears have
numerous tape worms through
out their intestines and in their
stomach. The writer has per
80nelly observed balls of tape
worm like a large ball of heavy
twine or small rope, in a bear’s
stomach, and tape worms all
through the intestines to a point
wiiere high bush cranberries had
forced the worms to let go of
their hold and passed along. All
bears have tape worms in the
fall and they are all passed out
bv the action of the cranberries.
The most peculiar part of it is
that the cranberries are not
digested but passed out of the
intestinal tract whole. The writ
er has made it a point to open
the stomachs of all bears killed,
alter skinning, to see what it
contains at different periods of
the season and on two of these
hunts happened to have doctors
on the trip. The doctors were
astonished to see the work the
cranberries had done and wond
ered if that should not be an
excellent medicine for tape
worms in human beings.
Before going into hibernation
the bear eats a species of root
which forms a sort of resinous
plug which completely closes the
intestinal track and therefore
allows the animal to lie in a
trance or state of hibernation
for several months in a perfectly
clean bed of grass. Stomach and
bladder are completely emptied
before they enter the dens, and
in fact before they eat roots
which forms the plug, so the den
is found as clean in the spring as
it is when they enter it in the
fall.
It is claimed that heart act
ion almost stops and that it
therefore takes very little nour
ishment to keep this enormous
animal alive during the time of
hibernation and the writer has
seen, on several occasions, bears
killed in the spring, immediate
ly after they emerged from
hibernation, with 2 1-2 to 3 inch
es of fat across their hind quart
ers. The old and popular belief
that a bear “sucks his paw” dur
ing hibernation is too silly and
rdiculous to need any discuss
ion here and so is the olJ belief
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Work df All
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KOSSftT
haw Kins
r' nt t! e hear whe i fishing for
sa'mon "throws tab fish out of
the stream with a quick swipe
of his paw and keeps on like that
until he gets a stack of fish like
a pyramid and then lies down to
eat then!” Those old beliefs
should have been exploded years
ago as they are "pure nonsense.”
The bear is an expert fisherman,
but he runs along the shallow
streams and catches the salmon
with his teeth or paws. He then
takes the fish up on the bank,
or eats it right in the stream,
and starts eating it from the
tail end. A bear will always leave
the heads ot the fish unless he
is very hungry and fish are
scarce. The above are facts and
not old, popular beliefs.
The Kodiak bear is, truly, the
King of all Big Game on the
American continent and his
skin is the most prized of all
Alaskan trophies. Hunting this
bear offers a new experience to
the hunter whose wanderings in
the wilderness have been con
fined to any part of the world,
not excluding Africa or India.
When this bear is to the fore, the
use of such adjectives as “great”
Bond Quota Set
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/. laska’s quota for the sale of
War Bonds for the month of
July, and monthly thereafter for
the fiscal year 1943, has peen in-j
creased to $738,000, the U. S.
Treasury’s War Savings Staff
office in Juneau announced this
week. The previously announced
monthly quota for the period
from July 1, 1942 to June 30,
1943, was $500,000.
Based on sales performance
during the past three months, in
which time the Territory far ex-;
ceeded the expectations of the
Treasury Department, the new
quota will result in sharp revis
ions upward of the local allot
ments already assigned through
out Alaska
and “mighty” a^e really inade
quate, for he is all of that and
more. They are a worthy adver
sary for any sportsman and no
collection of trophies can be con
sidered complete with a speci
or two of these world famous
bears.
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