Cortisol concentrations in hair are used increasingly as a biomarker of long-term stress in free-ranging wildlife. However, methodological differences between studies that include e.g. the measurement of cortisol in only the […]
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News — Year: 2020
Heavy metals in bears’ hair and blood – new publication with the results of toxicological research by our team!
Under the lead of dr. Maja Lazarus and her team from the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health (Zagreb, Croatia), we investigated the level of five non-essential metal(loid)s (As, Cd, Hg, Tl, Pb) and […]
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On bears in Białowieża Forest in the “International Bear News”
The year 2019 has been special in observations of bears showing up in new areas. The fall issue of the International Bear News includes an article by Nuria Selva on this topic, with special attention to the records in Białowieża Forest in […]
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