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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Brown bears like sugar-rich foods such as fruits, Yogi the bear and Boo Boo already taught us all. However, we still do not know much about how good is for a fruit to be eaten by a bear. An international group of researchers led by Alberto García-Rodríguez from the Institute of Nature […]