Data from: Optimal foraging or surplus killing: selective consumption and discarding of salmon by brown bears

• Main Authors: Lincoln, Alexandra E., Quinn, Thomas P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: optimal foraging; surplus killing; brown bear; prey selection; Pacific; Sockeye; Ursus arctos; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.193321; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3fg5r56

Selective consumption of prey by predators, observed in many animals, is often attributed to optimal foraging. Consistent with this idea, brown bears (Ursus arctos) often exhibit partial consumption, feeding exclusively on lipid-rich tissues of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), and discarding rema...