Close encounters with brown bears are extremely rare, and encounters that end with the death of the person are even rarer, but, unfortunately, they can happen. On Monday 14th June, a man was found dead in the Low Tatras, […]
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PhD position on brown bear ecology at the University of South-Eastern Norway!
PhD position on brown bear ecology at the University of South-Eastern Norway within the project “Effects of climate and management on diet, stress and life history in brown bears”. The project aims to connect nutrition (stable isotopes), stress (hair cortisol) and life history […]
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Brown bears have communication hubs – new publication!
Brown bears have communication hubs! Male brown bears mark trees with a secretion from glands located on their backs. The recent discovery of pedal glands and pedal marking at the site used for tree-rubbing, lead researchers to the hypothesis that both, rubbing trees and the trails leading to those […]
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Land use change and human abandonment of European rural areas ease carnivore populations natural recolonization
Most European populations of grey wolves, Eurasian lynx and brown bears have increased in number and extension during the last decades. Experts have routinely proposed as common causes of this recovery the agricultural abandonment and forest encroachment, […]
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Lab techniques and enzyme immunoassay technology in long-term ecophysiological studies
Working with the hair samples in the lab is very tedious and time-consuming, but its steady rhythm often inspires us to new ideas. Sometimes, what makes this work more exciting are changing technologies we use, and that forces us to experiment to deal with these […]
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