They speed away
And follow, follow on,
And take the prey!
Grey Burleson.
ZERO.
If a Polar bear went upright, he would be as tall as a man with a boy standing on his head.
But the Polar bear goes on all-fours, and so he is nine feet long instead of nine feet tall.
A big white Polar bear lived at the Zoo—a place where wild animals are kept—in London, twenty-three years. He was named Zero, because he came from the cold Arctic regions. It was so much warmer in London that he was given great cakes of ice to lie on.
Zero weighed nearly a ton; but, though he was so large and so long, his tail was very, very short, as short as a goat’s tail.
Unlike all other bears, the Polar bear’s feet are shod with hair—short hairs set so close that one can’t see between them even with a magnifying glass. With this hairy sole to his feet, the Polar bear can walk on the smoothest ice without slipping.