Third International Conference on Bears Paper 4 The Social Behaviour of Brown Bears on an Alaskan Salmon Stream
Adult brown bears Ursus arctos a r e typically soli tary. Subject to few, if any, of the evolutionary p ressures (e.g. interspecific predation, food procurement) that favour formation of social groups (Eisenberg 1966; Kummer 1971; Estes 1974), brown bears retain a simple social system that i s proba...
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Summary: | Adult brown bears Ursus arctos a r e typically soli tary. Subject to few, if any, of the evolutionary p ressures (e.g. interspecific predation, food procurement) that favour formation of social groups (Eisenberg 1966; Kummer 1971; Estes 1974), brown bears retain a simple social system that i s probably little |
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