ARCTIC Predation of Belugas and Narwhals by Polar Bears in Nearshore Areas of the Canadian High Arctic

Somerset Island. All of the narwhals and two of the belugas had been attacked and partially eaten by polar bears. At Cunningham Inlet, where belugas concentrate in large numbers, we have noted ten strandings over the period 1980-88, without bear predation on these occasions. One bear, hunting from a...

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Main Authors: Thomas G Smith, Becky Sjare
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1989
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.512.6172
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic43-2-99.pdf