The sampling sessions to collect bear genetic material in the Podkarpackie Voivodship are over now. After 3 months of intensive field work and thousands of kilometers driven & walked, we succeeded in getting hundreds of samples. The next step is to organize and classify them in order to later proceed to the laboratory analysis. We […]
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From the middle of August to half of November 2014 we will conduct a genetic sampling of the eastern segment of the brown bear population in the Polish Carpathians. The field work will consist in checking hair traps and collecting samples from fresh scats along transects. Sampling sessions are intensive and last 12 days in the field. […]
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A new discovery on non-reproductive sexual behaviour in another mammal species refers to brown bears. Two male brown bears raised in captivity since being orphaned as cubs have been observed engaging in recurrent fellatio until at least 10 years old. The bears kept the roles of provider and receiver in the act, it remained […]
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The experience from the survey conducted by members of our staff regarding brown bear damages in the Ukrainian Carpathians has been covered in the last volume of the International Bear News. The report, entitled “After the trail of brown bear damages in the Ukrainian Carpathians”, shows that bears and humans coexist with little conflict […]
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Large carnivores are known to adjust their activity in relation to humans. A general way for carnivores to avoid humans is to become more nocturnal. Thus, their “night life” increases as human activity does. Given that the density of roads is a good proxy for human disturbance, researchers from the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project […]
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