An Improved Method of Documenting Activity Patterns of Post-Emergence Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in Northern Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Smith, Tom S., Miller, Julie A., Layton, Cali
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2013
• Subjects: Alaska; behavior; den emergence; human disturbance; maternity den; North Slope; polar bear; post-denning; southern Beaufort Sea; Ursus maritimus; comportement; sortie de la tanière; perturbation anthropique; tanière de maternité; versant nord; ours polaire; après-séjour en tanière; sud de la mer de Beaufort; Mer de Beaufort; Arctic; Beaufort Sea; north slope
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67332

Throughout their circumpolar range, pregnant female polar bears (Ursus maritimus) create snow dens in which they give birth to altricial cubs. Because polar bear neonates are born in such an undeveloped state, their survival requires a long, undisturbed period of in-den development. To mitigate huma...