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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01CCC47E.6987E9A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Christmas Day I had a great opportunity to observe a large number = of fresh bear scratchings on youngish hardwoods along the trails in the = Big Pokiok Nature Park near the community of Pokiok, N.B. Some scratch = locations were new, whereas elsewhere trees get scratched every year or = so.=20 I understand that tree scratchings are territorial markers. There = seems to be no scent associated with the scratchings, as the two dogs in = our party were totally oblivious to them. Who does the scratching, the = males or the females? Or both?=20 Dusan Soudek ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01CCC47E.6987E9A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19154"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> On Christmas Day I had a great = opportunity to=20 observe a large number of fresh bear scratchings on youngish hardwoods = along the=20 trails in the Big Pokiok Nature Park near the community of Pokiok, = N.B.=20 Some scratch locations were new, whereas elsewhere trees get = scratched=20 every year or so. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> I understand that tree scratchings = are=20 territorial markers. There seems to be no scent associated with the = scratchings, as the two dogs in our party were totally oblivious to = them. Who=20 does the scratching, the males or the females? Or both? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> Dusan Soudek</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01CCC47E.6987E9A0--
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