Polar bear-grizzly bear interactions during the autumn open-water period in Alaska

• Published in: Journal of Mammalogy
• Main Authors: Miller, Susanne, Wilder, James, Wilson, Ryan R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2015
• Subjects: Feature Article; Lone; Balaena mysticetus; Beaufort Sea; bowhead whale; Sea ice; Ursus maritimus; Alaska
• Online Access: http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/96/6/1317; https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyv140

Reduction of summer sea ice extent has led some polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ) populations to increase their use of land during the summer/autumn open-water period. While terrestrial food resources are generally not sufficient to compensate for lost hunting opportunities on the sea ice, marine mamma...