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Conservation & Society, 2018 Bear-inflicted human injuries or deaths are often widely publicised, controversial, and evoke substantial social responses that articulate public expectations about bear management. In this paper, we examine how local people and management agencies (i.e.
Aimee L Schmidt, Douglas A Clark
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Traditional knowledge about polar bear in Chukotka [PDF]
, 2007 This research note describes a study undertaken from 2004 to 2007 with the aim to create a written collection of Indigenous narratives and traditional knowledge about the polar bear’s role in the cultural, spiritual, and material life of the peoples of ...
Zdor, Eduard
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Arctic Science, 2020 Contemporary climate change is predicted to expose some species to altered predation regimes. Losses of Arctic sea ice are causing polar bears to increasingly forage on colonial seaduck eggs in lieu of ice-based hunting of marine mammals.
Cody J. Dey +3 more
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Sea-ice indicators of polar bear habitat [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2016 Nineteen subpopulations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are found throughout the circumpolar Arctic, and in all regions they depend on sea ice as a platform for traveling, hunting, and breeding.
H. L. Stern, K. L. Laidre, K. L. Laidre
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Open Quaternary, 2022 The polar bear ('Ursus maritimus') is the apex predator of the Arctic but its distribution throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene has not previously been reported.
Susan J. Crockford
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Temporomandibular Joint Pathology of Wild Carnivores in the Western USA
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Skull specimens from: southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis), Eastern Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
Siobhan S. Rickert +2 more
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Field metabolic rate and PCB adipose tissue deposition efficiency in East Greenland polar bears derived from contaminant monitoring data. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Climate change will increasingly affect the natural habitat and diet of polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Understanding the energetic needs of polar bears is therefore important.
Viola Pavlova +8 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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Saving the Polar Bear, Saving the World:Can the Capabilities Approach do Justice to Humans, Animals and Ecosystems? [PDF]
, 2010 Martha Nussbaum has expanded the capabilities approach to defend positive duties of justice to individuals who fall below Rawls’ standard for fully cooperating members of society, including sentient nonhuman animals.
Alasdair Cochrane +26 more
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More bears, less bears: Inuit and scientific perceptions of polar bear populations on the west coast of Hudson Bay [PDF]
, 2006 Les perceptions des Inuit et des scientifiques au sujet des populations d’ours polaires se basent sur différentes épistémologies et différents modes de relation et d’interaction avec les ours polaires. Dans de nombreuses communautés, les quotas de chasse
Tyrrell, Martina
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