Consumption choice by bears feeding on salmon

• Published in: Oecologia
• Main Authors: Gende, S. M., Quinn, T. P., Willson, M. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2001
• Subjects: Ursus arctos; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420000590

Consumption choice by brown (Ursus arctos) and black bears (U. americanus) feeding on salmon was recorded for over 20,000 bear-killed fish from 1994 to 1999 in Bristol Bay (sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka) and southeastern Alaska (pink, O. gorbuscha and chum salmon O. keta). These data revealed s...