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Andean bears (Tremarctos ornatus) display selective behaviors while foraging bromeliads (Puya spp.) in high elevation puna grasslands

Nicholas W. Pilfold, Denisse Mateo-Chero, William Farfan-Rios, Mrinalini Watsa, Megan A. Owen, Russell C. Van Horn

published 18 Dec 2024

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Bear baiting risks and mitigations: An assessment using expert opinion analyses

Diana J. R. Lafferty, Sarah M. Trujillo, Grant V. Hilderbrand, Andee Sears, Peter Christian, David Payer, Mary Hake

published 25 Nov 2024

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Distinct fecal microbiome between wild and habitat-housed captive polar bears (Ursus maritimus): Impacts of captivity and dietary shifts

Jing Lu, Renee Petri, Dylan McCart, Amy Baxendell-Young, Stephanie Anne Collins

published 20 Nov 2024

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Bayesian accuracy estimates for diagnostic tests to detect tuberculosis in captive sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) and Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) in Cambodia and Vietnam

Kirsty Officer, Juan Carlos Arango-Sabogal, Simon Dufour, Konstantin P. Lyashchenko, Jonathan Cracknell, Shaun Thomson, Sokleaph Cheng, Kris Warren, Bethany Jackson

published 13 Nov 2024

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Effects of bear endozoochory on germination and dispersal of huckleberry in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Aza Fynley Kuijt, Cole Burton, Clayton T. Lamb

published 06 Nov 2024

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Increased pathogen exposure of a marine apex predator over three decades

Karyn D. Rode, Caroline Van Hemert, Ryan R. Wilson, Susannah P. Woodruff, Kristy Pabilonia, Lora Ballweber, Oliver Kwok, Jitender P. Dubey

published 23 Oct 2024

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Clovis points and foreshafts under braced weapon compression: Modeling Pleistocene megafauna encounters with a lithic pike

R. Scott Byram, Kent G. Lightfoot, Jun Ueno Sunseri

published 21 Aug 2024

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Hibernating or not hibernating? Brown bears’ response to a mismatch between environmental natural cues and captive management, and its welfare implications

Paolo Dori, Isabella Anastasio, Elisabetta Macchi, Isabella Manenti, Maik Hones, Monica Carosi

published 31 Jul 2024

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Rancid rumors or Native wisdom: Evaluating the efficacy of animal fats as insect repellents attributed to historic-period Native Americans

Delaram Esmaeili, Keyla R. Salas, Hailey A. Luker, Soumi Mitra, Claudia J. Galvan, F. Omar Holguin, Sophie Whyms, Immo A. Hansen, August G. Costa

published 17 Jul 2024

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Non-invasive biomonitoring of polar bear feces can be used to estimate concentrations of metals of concern in traditional food

Kristin M. Eccles, Vincent Boutet, Marsha Branigan, Markus Dyck, Peter van Coeverden de Groot, Stephen C. Lougheed, Allison Rutter, Valérie S. Langlois

published 25 Jun 2024

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Influence of an extreme event—the COVID-19 pandemic—On establishment of and data collection by a citizen science project

Elizabeth Y. Zhang, Annika Baldwin, Calista Hundley, Eugena Chang, Susannah Auderset, Mia Bawendi, Thea V. Kristensen

published 31 May 2024

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Aversive conditioning increases short-term wariness but does not change habitat use in black bears associated with conflict

Lori Homstol, Sage Raymond, Claire Edwards, Anthony N. Hamilton, Colleen Cassady St. Clair

published 02 Jan 2024

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Distribution and associations for antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic resistance genes of Escherichia coli from musk deer (Moschus berezovskii) in Sichuan, China

Hang Liu, Shulei Pan, Yuehong Cheng, Lijun Luo, Lei Zhou, Siping Fan, Liqin Wang, Shaoqi Jiang, Ziyao Zhou, Haifeng Liu, Shaqiu Zhang, Zhihua Ren, Xiaoping Ma, Suizhong Cao, Liuhong Shen, Ya Wang, Dongjie Cai, Liping Gou, Yi Geng, Guangneng Peng, Qigui Yan, Yan Luo, Zhijun Zhong

published 27 Nov 2023

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