Individual Distinctiveness in Brown Bears, Ursus arctos L

• Published in: Ethology
• Main Authors: Fagen, Robert, Fagen, Johanna M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1996
• Subjects: Ursus arctos; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01119.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1439-0310.1996.tb01119.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01119.x

Abstract Individual brown bears, Ursus arctos , behave differently from each other. Consistent behavioural differences suggest that each bear has its own distinct personality. On Admiralty Island in south‐eastern Alaska, we collected longitudinal data during three years of summer salmon runs on seve...