Black Bears
Ecology of American Black Bears in an Urban Environment.
... female black bears (Ursus americanus) within the city of Asheville, North Carolina, and in 3 nearby forested, rural ...on black bears indicates that females generally produce litters for the ...
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Suppressed bone remodeling in black bears conserves energy and bone mass during hibernation
... risk. Black bears, however, are physically inactive for up to 6 months annually during hibernation without losing cortical or trabecular bone ...mass. Bears have been shown to preserve trabecular ...
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The Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossing Structures for Black Bears in Madison County, North Carolina
... for black bears on a new interstate in the mountains of North ...where bears might cross a major road in the Appalachian ...likely black bear movement, while keeping the model as simple as ...
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Blood chemistry reference intervals of captive Asiatic black bears ( Ursus thibetanus
... Asiatic black bears (Ursus ...Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) in the Republic of ...adult bears showed significantly higher levels of creatinine and total cholesterol, and lower ...
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Factors Influencing the Abundance of Berry Plants for Black Bears, Ursus americanus , in Quebec
... Forty-four species of berry plants sought by Black Bears were found in the regions under study (Table 1). We examined the influence of the selected environ - mental variables on the total abundance of these ...
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Big data in wildlife research: remote web-based monitoring of hibernating black bears
... American black bears (N = ...from bears in their remote den sites to a web-based data storage and management ...all bears, long periods without heart beats (up to 16 seconds) occurred during ...
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Effects of body size on male mating tactics and paternity in black bears, Ursus americanus
... male black bears, Ursus americanus, in the southern Appalachian ...Mountains. Black bears have a spatial organization similar to that of many other solitary carnivores ...
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Implications of the variable availability of seasonal foods on the home ranges of black bears, Ursus americanus, in the Sierra Nevada of California
... It is possible that black bears in the Sierra will lose these high-calorie food sources. Blister rust has already reduced sugar pines to a fraction of their original range [2]. Since these trees occur on a ...
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Black bears alter movements in response to anthropogenic features with time of day and season
... Black bears have been observed to be highly individu- alistic in their response to landscape features ...example, bears in more rural areas may have a stronger negative response to roads and residen- ...
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Bone formation is not impaired by hibernation (disuse) in black bears Ursus americanus
... the remaining portion of their physically active life and during hibernation. This hypothesis is supported by the histological data of Floyd et al. (1990), which showed that the bone formation rate in black ...
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Blood clotting behavior is innately modulated in Ursus americanus during early and late denning relative to summer months
... female bears without ...in black bears may introduce opportunities for employing novel clinical mechanisms for anti-coagulation therapy and targeted ...brown bears ( Ursus arctos ) has been ...
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Development and utilization of implantable cardiac monitors in free-ranging American black and Eurasian brown bears: system evolution and lessons learned
... The Reveal LINQ ™ is being utilized as the GEN 3 device platform (2013 to present; Fig. 1c; Medtronic Inc., Min- neapolis, MN, USA; 1.2 cc; 4.0 mm × 7.2 mm × 44.8 mm; 2.4 g). These biologgers are 99% smaller than GEN 1 ...
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Parathyroid hormone may maintain bone formation in hibernating black bears (Ursus americanus) to prevent disuse osteoporosis
... hibernation, bears have a remarkable ability to recycle catabolic waste products ...in bears during hibernation, probably to keep blood calcium concentration within a homeostatic ...in black ...
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The Effects of Food Abundance, Foraging Rules and Cognitive Abilities on Local Animal Movements
... I’ve radio-tracked California condors (Gymnogyps californianus) across valleys, a rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) across her home range in the Catskill Mountains, and black bears (Ursus americanus) in North ...
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Energetic costs of locomotion in bears: is plantigrade locomotion energetically economical?
... sloth bears ( Melursus ursinus ) (McNab, 1992) exhibit RMRs that are 18% and 41% less than predictions for similarly sized mammals (Kleiber, 1975), while polar bears ( Ursus maritimus ) (Hurst et ...and ...
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Ancestral polymorphisms and sex biased migration shaped the demographic history of brown bears and polar bears
... brown bears or polar bears (Figures S2o and ...American black bears with phylogenetic positions that are closer to brown and polar bears compared with the giant panda ...American ...
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The effect on model identifiability of allowing different relocation rates for live and dead animals in the combined analysis of telemetry and recapture data
... on black bears (Ursus americanus) in which all animals received ear tags and a subset also received radio ...on black bears illustrated that estimates of survival have poor precision when ...
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The New Hampshire, Vol. 106, No. 31 (Feb. 16, 2017), The New Hampshire
... Jaleen Smith and the men’s basketball team defeated the University of Maine Black Bears, 64-51, during the ‘Light up Lundholm’.. game on Wednesday night.[r] ...
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Habitat-Distribution Modeling of a Recolonizing Black Bear, Ursus americanus , Population in the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas
... other Black Bear habitat across the United States, since the lower elevations are part of the Chihuahuan Desert, the largest desert in North America (Powell ...for Black Bears) separated by sometimes ...
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The New Hampshire, Vol. 107, No. 20 (Mar. 8, 2018), The New Hampshire
... Umile coached his final game on Saturday, March 3, as the Wildcats lost to the Maine Black Bears, 3-2, in Orono. 5146[r] ...
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