Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns
From: dil@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Perry G Ramsey)
Subject: Bear Identification
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 97 19:20:04 EST

How to tell the species of bear you are looking at:

Go over to him, and kick him in the behind.  Run up a nearby tree.
If he climbs the tree and eats you, he's a black bear.  If he
knocks the tree down and eats you, he's a grizzly.

--  October 1990 Backpacker Magazine