Sentences with phrase «collared bear tracking»

People interested in this post might be interested in polarbearsinternational (dot) org which has collared bear tracking and compare their locations in the Beaufort sea to the current condition of the Arctic sea ice such as at the National Snow and Ice data center, nsidc (dot) org or the University of Bremen maps.

Not exact matches

After tracking down female bears without cubs, the researchers fitted the animals with a camera collar.

To measure polar bears» energy expenditure during the summer months, Whiteman and his colleagues used satellite collars to track the movement of individual bears, both on shore and on ice.

In order to track and observe the bears, we realized that we would have to put radio collars on them — a job that requires the skills of a hunter, a veterinarian, and a biologist.

Researchers used GPS collars to track the movements of black bears in Sequoia National Park while measuring the their natural food levels.

The bears were weighed and measured and fitted with tracking collars.

The researchers tracked 52 females from 2004 to 2009 (I was told that the necks of male bears are too thick to accommodate radio collars), then compared the recorded tracks of the bears with maps of sea ice through the same period.

The scientists used collars that tracked bears» movements and metabolic rates.

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Analysis of movement data from mark - recapture studies and tracking of adult female bears with satellite radio collars indicated that there are two populations of polar bears in the area, one that inhabits the west coast of Banks Island and Amundsen Gulf and a second that is resident along the mainland coast from about Baillie Islands in Canada to approximately Icy Cape in Alaska.