cinnamon bear

The Rocky Mountains, that traditional stamping-ground for the heartbroken, may be well enough in their way; but a lover has to be cast in a pretty stem mould to be able to be introspective when at any moment he may meet an annoyed cinnamon bear.

At length he found the slot of a great animal, and from the claw-marks and the hair among the brush, judged that he was on the track of a cinnamon bear of most unusual size.

Just across the open space, an Ahrmehnee girl clung ten feet up an ancient oak, splitting the air with her shrieks as a lean, cinnamon bear began to climb toward her.

We got a chance to see a bear banger in action a few days later, during a two-night stay at the Sheslay-Tatsatua confluence, when a 300-pound cinnamon black bear invaded our camp in the predawn murk.

The cinnamon bear (Ursus americanus cinnamomum) is a color phase of the American black bear, native to Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and western Canada.

The most striking difference between a cinnamon bear and any other black bear is its brown or red-brown fur, reminiscent of cinnamon, from which the name is derived.

An informal Menagerie began to take shape within Prospect Park in May 1890 when the newly appointed president of the City of Brooklyn Parks Commission, George V. Brower, donated "three young cinnamon bears."

Travelers to the Fairmont Chateau Montebello in Quebec feel the same about seeing black bears and rare reddish-brown cinnamon bears, viewed from a screened-in structure in the wilderness.

The following year, the zoo added two cinnamon bears and created an iron bear den.