1. Cade 1958 25 July Ursus richardsonii cont on its hind legs in water about chest high to the bear. It faced the left limit and barked several times. At first we could not see what it was up to. Then I saw two small cubs on a gravel bar at the edge of the river. The sow was apparently trying them to follow her across the river. At first they ran up and down the edge of the river. She kept barking off and on, and in about half a minute the cubs waded into the river and headed toward the sow. Then she swam or wet out deep water in the main current, turned so that her head was up stream, and then she twirled water until the cubs caught up with her. They continued swimming across in front of her while she left headed up river and drifting with the current, which was strong at this point on the river. As they neared the right limit, one of the cubs seemed to stir, at any rate the sow grabbed it up in her mouth and pulled it into her shoulders, where the cub climbed up on her back and rode the rest of the way across. At the same time the other cub fell in behind the sow