News tagged with grizzly


Fed judge says grizzlies still threatened

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A federal judge in Montana restored protections Monday for an estimated 600 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, citing in part a decline in their food supply caused by climate change.


Reducing roads could boost bear population

Reducing roads could boost bear population

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (8) | comments 9

Alberta's scant grizzly bear population could grow by up to five per cent a year if fewer logging roads are built in the animals' habitat, according to University of Alberta researchers.





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Grizzly bears feast on diverse diet

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created Feb 15, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

There’s no such thing as picky grizzly bears—they’ll eat almost anything they can find. A new University of Alberta study that tracked food habits of the Alberta grizzly bear living in the foothills sheds some ...


There's no such thing as a picky grizzly bear

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created Feb 22, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new University of Alberta study, which tracked eating habits of grizzly bears living in the Alberta foothills, sheds some light on the animal's varied diet and their activity pattern.


Study of bear hair will reveal genetic diversity of Yellowstone's grizzlies

Study of bear hair will reveal genetic diversity of Yellowstone's grizzlies

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created Dec 18, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Locks of hair from more than 400 grizzly bears are stored at Montana State University, waiting to tell the tale of genetic diversity in the Yellowstone Ecosystem.


Climate change may be lemmings' cliff

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 21, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Canadian researchers say lemmings may be in danger of falling off the climate change "cliff."


Handout photo from the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows two Grizzly bears

Grizzlies may lose 'threatened' status

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created Nov 15, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The Bush administration says it plans to remove Yellowstone's grizzly bears from the nation's endangered species list.


Greater Yellowstone elk suffer worse nutrition and lower birth rates due to wolves

Greater Yellowstone elk suffer worse nutrition and lower birth rates due to wolves

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wolves have caused elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to change their behavior and foraging habits so much so that herds are having fewer calves, mainly due to changes in their nutrition, ...


Northern brown bears discovered feeding on whitefish runs

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The discovery of brown (grizzly) bears feeding on migrating broad whitefish in a stream in Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories has researchers advising increased care in petroleum extraction and infrastructure ...


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Cave bears from the Carpathians as omnivorous as modern bears

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 07, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Rather than being gentle giants, new research reveals that Pleistocene cave bears, a species which became extinct 20,000 years ago, ate both plants and animals and competed for food with the other contemporary ...


Study: Canada's Yellowstone too small

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created Jul 05, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Wildlife Conservation Society report says Canada's Northwest Territories' Nahanni National Park Reserve is too small for its wildlife.


Dog to be world's first whale poop expert

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created May 22, 2006 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

University of Washington scientists are training an Australian cattle dog for an unusual assignment: detecting whale excrement to help the endangered mammals.



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