Sentences with phrase «bear scat»

In the second paper, published in summer 2013 in the journal Ecology and Evolution, researchers used polar bear scat to show that the diet of at least some of the bears has shifted from what it was 40 years ago, before climate change was affecting the Hudson Bay lowlands.

Quinoa is a Dutch Shepherd that she trained from a 6 - month - old pup to seek and find polar bear scat.

Bear scat proves this well; one can easily identify blueberries, grass, and pungently digested salmon in summer bear droppings.

Shrubs have turned red, and the blue berries on the elderberry bushes are reduced to bright seeds in copious bear scat.

The U of A team then measured stable isotopes and analyzed 230 grizzly bear scats collected over three years, some of which could be attributed to GPS - collared bears.

Not exact matches

Researchers found that bears, while foraging, can disperse through their scat about 200,000 devil's club seeds per square kilometer per hour.

It costs the researchers roughly $ 370 per bear to genetically identify individual animals using scat samples; the cost with saliva samples dropped to $ 118.

It was well - known that bears were dispersing seeds through their scat, Levi said, but it was not known that they were dispersing more seeds than birds, or the relative contribution of brown and black bears to seed dispersal, or whether the two species bears were eating berries at different times of the year.

The researchers were able to get brown bear genotypes for 55 percent of all the salmon carcasses sampled for saliva, compared to 34 percent for the scat samples.

They also swabbed a total of 272 brown bear «scats,» or fecal samples, from those same locations.

Passive bottom / switch bear loves ball play and whatever else pleases silver bears, except blood and scat.

For all of the excessive power and the fantastic sound the V - 8 makes at full bore, the R / T Scat Pack is also so very comfortable when just tooling around town.

A tribute after the death of a young and innovative field researcher who used a scat - sniffing dog to help figure out polar bears» changing diets.Read more...

As for cannibalism, I was able to quantify the proportion of scats with polar bear remains (i.e., cannibalism) and compare it to a similar study done in the 1960's.

The predominance of local vegetation in collected scat suggests little movement among habitat types between feeding sessions, indicating that the polar bears are keeping energy expenditure down.

We characterized the current terrestrial diet of polar bears in western Hudson Bay by evaluating the contents of passively sampled scat and comparing it to a similar study conducted 40 years ago.

We were a bit jacked - up about the whole bear thing; never saw one bear — or not even any scat.