Do Scandinavian brown bears approach settlements to obtain high-quality food?

• Published in: Biological Conservation
• Main Authors: Elfström, Marcus, Davey, Marie Louise, Zedrosser, Andreas, Müller, Martin, De Barba, Marta, Støen, Ole-Gunnar, Miquel, Christian, Taberlet, Pierre, Hackländer, Klaus, Swenson, Jon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Slaughter; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2437943; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.08.003

Large carnivores that approach human settlements are usually considered a threat to human property and safety. The prevailing paradigm, that such ‘problem’ animals approach settlements in search of food, ignores their social organization. Based on feces, we compared the diet of individual brown bear...