Animals may fall into what are called evolutionary and ecological traps when they make poor decisions using seemingly reliable environmental cues. For example, animals may select habitats to occupy based on food availability, ...
Ecology
Apr 5, 2018
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Scientists used a technology designed for the purposes of human forensics, to provide the first genetically documented case of infanticide in brown bears, following the murder of a female and her two cubs in Trentino, the ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2018
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It's a story of bears, birds and berries.
Ecology
Jan 16, 2018
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According to the glacier refuges theory, after the last glaciations, the bears of northern Europe sought shelter in the South. Researchers from A Coruña University reject this idea. They have reconstructed the colonization ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 27, 2017
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There's a new twist to the perennial argument about which is smarter, cats or dogs.
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2017
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One of the largest known species of bear, the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), ranged widely through Eurasia all the way to the Mediterranean in the south and to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran in the east during Late ...
Archaeology
Aug 24, 2017
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While Dracula's legend usually fails to scare tourists away from the blood-sucking vampire's 15th century castle, a large, furry and protective mother bear has had more success.
Ecology
Jun 9, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from Poland, Spain and Austria has discovered that brown bears living in Poland have glands in their paws that produce chemicals that the bears use to communicate with other bears. In their ...
Senckenberg scientists have sequenced the entire genomes of four bear species, making it now possible to analyze the evolutionary history of all bears at the genome level. It shows that gene flow, or gene exchange, between ...
Ecology
Apr 19, 2017
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Two orphaned bear cubs have captured hearts in Montenegro after a farmer rescued them from starving to death in the wild.
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2017
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