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THE following anecdote, received the other day from Russia, may possibly interest your readers:ββThe following was narrated to me by Mohl's brother, on whose estate it took place. The carcass of a cow was laid out in the woods to attract the wolves, and a spring-trap was set. Next morning the forester found there the track of a bear instead of a wolf on the snow; the trap was thrown to some distance. Evidently the bear had put his paw in the trap and had managed to jerk it off. The next night the forester hid himself within shot of the carcass to watch for the bear. The bear came, but first pulled down a stack of firewood cut into seven-foot lengths, selected a piece to his mind, and, taking it up in his arms, walked on his hind legs to the carcass. He then beat about in the snow all round the carcass with the log of wood before he began his meal. The forester put a ball in his head, which I almost regret, as such a sensible brute deserved to live.β
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HAYWARD, J. Animal Intelligence. Nature 29, 357 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029357d0
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