Anencephaly and Severe Myelodysplasia in a Stillborn Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos) [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Malformations in the development of the neural tube have been described to be associated with different aetiologies, such as genetic factors, toxic plants, chemical products, viral agents, or hyperthermia.
Ana Balseiro +3 more
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Seasonal variations in ventricular repolarization and tachyarrhythmias in hibernating brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos) [PDF]
Physiological ReportsIn humans, hypothermia prolongs ventricular repolarization and associates with sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias. In bears, body temperature drops during hibernation similar to moderate human hypothermia, yet they rarely face fatal outcomes during ...
Lucas Alexander Lindberg +6 more
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First report of Taenia arctos (Cestoda: Taeniidae) from brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Romania [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is an apex predator with significant ecological importance and serves as a valuable indicator species for monitoring parasitic burdens in forest ecosystems.
Maria Monica Florina Moraru +7 more
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Nutrient intake and its possible drivers in free‐ranging European brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos) [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The dietary nutrient profile has metabolic significance and possibly contributes to species' foraging behavior. The brown bear (Ursus arctos) was used as a model species for which dietary ingredient and nutrient concentrations as well as nutrient ratios ...
Annelies De Cuyper +7 more
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Endogenous lipid pneumonia in a brown bear (Ursus arctos) [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchA free-living yearling male brown bear (Ursus arctos) was observed in the wild, exhibiting marked ataxia, and died shortly after undergoing a standard immobilization procedure.
Katarzyna Kliczkowska +5 more
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Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus in Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) [PDF]
Acta Veterinaria, 2016 Gastric dilatation and volvulus is a life-threatening condition characterized by rapid accumulation of food and gases that cause displacement and distension of the stomach.
Marinković Darko +5 more
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Members of the family Ursidae in the Museum of Nature of Kharkiv University and their craniological features [PDF]
Theriologia Ukrainica, 2019 The exhibition and scientific collection of the Museum of Nature currently deposit 16 specimens of the family Ursidae (bears), which belong to three species and 6 subspecies.
Yuriy Iliukhin
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Problem-Solving and Spontaneous Tool-Using Ability in European Brown Bears (Ursus arctos arctos) [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2023 Little is known about the cognitive abilities of bears, despite possessing relatively large brains for their body size. One reason this group is perhaps overlooked is because they are thought to fail to conform to the “social brain” hypothesis, by being ...
Helen R. Chambers, Sean J. O’Hara
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Людина і довкілля: Проблеми неоекології, 2023 Purpose. Search for important areas for the presence of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) within the Transcarpathian region using geoinformation modeling tools to optimize the boundaries of the structural elements of the econetwork.
M. V. Teslovych, D. A. Krychevska
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Dietary ecology of the extinct cave bear: Evidence of omnivory as inferred from dental microwear textures [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 The diet of the extinct European cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, has widely been debated. Diverging from the extant brown bear (Ursus arctos) approximately 1.2 million years ago, the cave bear is one of the most ubiquitous fossil bears occurring in Europe ...
D. Brent Jones, Larisa R.G. DeSantis
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