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Bears When First Born Are Shapeless Masses Of White Flesh A Little Larger Than Mice, Their Claws Alone Being Prominent.
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Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little
larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then
licks them gradually into proper shape.
-- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
-- Natural History, Book viii, Sect. 126
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