Female brown bears with young have a reputation for being more aggressive than solitary bears. Veronica Sahlén and co-authors have just published in PLoS One the results of their investigations on the response of females with cubs versus other bears when approached by humans. The authors conducted 107 experimental approaches of GPS-GSM […]
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Both in the Tatras, and in the Bieszczady Mountains bears slowly wake up from their winter sleep and leave gawry. Therefore, GLOBE project team has already started the next trapping season in the Bieszczady Mountains. Like during the last trapping season in the […]
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To all those who would like to learn more about Filip, Eryk and Iwo bears and other brown bears living in the Tatra Mountains, we encourage you to read the article “Summer of bears” [“Lato z niedźwiedziami”] in the fall issue of the quarterly “Tatry” […]
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Bones are a precious material which preserves valuable information, for instance on the animal’s diet. The collagen is extracted from small bone fragments and its stable isotope composition is analysed. Thanks to the bone material classified in museum collections, it is possible to go back in time and get information on the diet that bears […]
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The second brown bear trapped by the GLOBE team this autumn in the Bieszczady Mountains on the night of November 8/9th. It was a healthy subadult male, weighed 135 kg and he was named Djuro. He, as well as the other bears capturted within GLOBE project, was equipped with a GPS-GSM collar. From […]
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