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Metabolic changes in summer active and anuric hibernating free-ranging brown bears (ursus arctos) [PDF]
, 2013 The brown bear (Ursus arctos) hibernates for 5 to 6 months each winter and during this time ingests no food or water and remains anuric and inactive.
Anderstam, Björn +14 more
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The Metadata Bear. Or: Bearing the weight of accessibility [PDF]
Journal of Educational Media, 1999 In a time where the Internet becomes the platform, the browsers become the operating system, and applications become services, a digital library project set in the performing arts has to define new methods of storing and distributing time?based data to be able to serve quality and quantity information across wide area networks.
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Managing Conflicts with Wildlife: Living with Bears
EDIS, 2015 Black bears are omnivorous, enigmatic animals that help maintain healthy forests by dispersing seeds of plants they eat. Bear watching is a favorite pastime for many Floridians throughout the state. Bears are generally secretive and rarely a problem for
William M. Giulliano +5 more
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Predation in the reindeer husbandry area in Finland during 1976-86
Rangifer, 1988 During the years 1976-86 predators killed a total of 11 295 reindeer in the Finnish reindeer husbandry area. Predators killed mostly calves and hinds.
Mauri Nieminen, Juhani Leppäluoto
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Bear bile use at the intersection of maternal health in Cambodia
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020 Background The consumption of bear gallbladders and bear bile in Southeast Asia is a persistent threat to bear populations. As part of a larger effort to understand the characteristics of bear part consumption in Cambodia, we uncovered a consumer base of
Elizabeth Oneita Davis +3 more
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Anthropogenic food: an emerging threat to polar bears
Oryx, 2023 Supplemental food from anthropogenic sources is a source of conflict with humans for many wildlife species. Food-seeking behaviours by black bears Ursus americanus and brown bears Ursus arctos can lead to property damage, human injury and mortality of ...
Tom S. Smith +7 more
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Black Bear Behavior and Movements Are Not Definitive Measures of Anthropogenic Food Use
Animals, 2023 Increasing human–bear conflicts are a growing concern, and managers often assume bears in developed areas are food-conditioned. We examined the relationship between human–bear conflicts and food conditioning by analyzing isotopic values of hair from ...
Don W. Hardeman +4 more
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Genomic evidence for island population conversion resolves conflicting theories of polar bear evolution. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2013 Despite extensive genetic analysis, the evolutionary relationship between polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and brown bears (U. arctos) remains unclear. The two most recent comprehensive reports indicate a recent divergence with little subsequent admixture ...
James A Cahill +10 more
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Bulls, Bears and Excess Volatility: can currency intervention help? [PDF]
, 2007 Asset mis-pricing may reflect investor psychology, with excess volatility arising from switches of sentiment. For a floating exchange rate where fundamentals follow a random walk, we show that excess volatility can be generated by the repeated entry and ...
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