Of more than 100 bears monitored by a Canadian researcher, 69% took a swim of at least 49 kilometers in 2012, up from 25% in 2004, according to a new study in the journal Ecography.
Using genetic and GPS data from individual grizzly bears monitored since 1999, we tested for distinct genetic and habitat use clusters (that we refer to as ecotypes), and whether genetic relatedness was correlated with ecological distance after accounting for the confounding effects of geography: both of these can be viewed as signatures of local adaptation.
Dr. Leischow said that the trend bears monitoring, and worrying about.
Ten bears were monitored in the Western Pyrénées from 1993 to 2005 13 yearss) for a total of 53 bear-years.
Sixteen bears were monitored in the Central Pyrénées from 1995 to 2005 11 yearss) for a total of 67 bear-years.
Brown bears were monitored for births and deaths from 1993 to 2005 by a combination of visual sightings, track identifications, genotyping, camera-trapping, and radio-telemetry by resident project biologists over 5000 km2 in the Pyrénées mountains of France [9], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28].
On this group trip you'll spend three nights in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve with fingers crossed, but even if the world's largest cat fails to show, the abundance of wildlife - from sloth bears to monitor lizards - is breathtaking.
He told me that he wasn't in Pond Inlet when the cruise-ship passengers disembarked because he was working on another cruise ship, run by Silversea, as a bear monitor to insure the safety of the tourists.
Arviat recently hired an armed "bear monitor" to ward off the animals.
The efforts, carefully coordinated and monitored, bore fruit.
They fitted the bears with sensors to record their temperature and heart rate, and the dens with infrared cameras and other sensors that monitored the bears' movement, oxygen consumption, and even their snoring (see video).
