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• bears

61:4.3For a short time all the land of the world was again joined ex­cept­ing Aus­tralia, and the last great world-wide an­i­mal mi­gra­tion took place. North Amer­ica was con­nected with both South Amer­ica and Asia, and there was a free ex­change of an­i­mal life. Asi­atic sloths, ar­madil­los, an­telopes, and bears en­tered North Amer­ica, while North Amer­i­can camels went to China. Rhinoceroses mi­grated over the whole world ex­cept Aus­tralia and South Amer­ica, but they were ex­tinct in the West­ern Hemi­sphere by the close of this pe­riod.

• bears

61:7.13The rig­or­ous glacial pe­riod de­stroyed many species and rad­i­cally changed nu­mer­ous oth­ers. Many were sorely sifted by the to-and-fro mi­gra­tion which was made nec­es­sary by the ad­vanc­ing and re­treat­ing ice. Those an­i­mals which fol­lowed the glaciers back and forth over the land were the bear, bi­son, rein­deer, musk ox, mam­moth, and mastodon.

• bears

62:5.2These two re­mark­able crea­tures were true hu­man be­ings. They pos­sessed per­fect hu­man thumbs, as had many of their an­ces­tors, while they had just as per­fect feet as the pres­ent-day hu­man races. They were walk­ers and run­ners, not climbers; the grasp­ing func­tion of the big toe was ab­sent, com­pletely ab­sent. When dan­ger drove them to the tree­tops, they climbed just like the hu­mans of to­day would. They would climb up the trunk of a tree like a bear and not as would a chim­panzee or a go­rilla, swing­ing up by the branches.