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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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 […]
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The occurrence of conflicts arising from large carnivore damage to human food sources is common to both marine and terrestrial ecosystems. For example, bears can raid apiaries on land and seals break nets at fish farms in the sea. But what are the commonalities and differences between the methods […]
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As part of the BearHealth project, in modules on (1) stress level and (2) foraging strategies and nutritional status in the studied brown bear populations, we attempted to explain the relationship between estimates of dietary quality (% faecal nitrogen and faecal carbon) […]
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Despite the project approaching an end, we visited the Tatra Mountains again in October 2020. Together with our colleagues from the Tatra National Park, we inspected bear bones found earlier. Monitoring mortality and registering such cases is very important. We will not be able to analyze those samples […]
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