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Originally Posted by Young Eldon
Keg:
Andy Russell wrote about grizzlies killing and scavenging Stonie Indians from their campsite on Yarrow Creek (S.W. of Pincher Creek) after many of them had died from a smallpox epidemic about 1860. Andy got this story from his Father In Law, Bert Riggall, who was a famous guide in the early 1900's. The story is in Chapter Four of Andy's 1978 book - Grizzly Country published by Alfred A. Knopf.
The story about Kananaskis grizzlies walking flat footed sounds O.K. - don't all bears walk flat footed?
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The walking flat footed had more to do with the way one puts their foot down. Most animals, including Bears put their toes down first and then roll the rest of the foot down.
Most modern humans and apparently some Bears put the heal down first.
It's a noisy way to step but it takes less energy. To be stealthy one has to put the toes down first and then roll the rest of the foot down.
I gather that was the case with those Bears, they were not trying to be stealthy because they had total confidence that they could take a human. They just strolled along like a fat man at a smorgasbord.