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The Social Behavior Of Brown Bears At Mcneil River, Alaska, Allan L. Egbert
The Social Behavior Of Brown Bears At Mcneil River, Alaska, Allan L. Egbert
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The social behavior of brown bears (Ursus arctos) was studied during the summers of 1972 and 1973 as bears fished for salmon at McNeil River, Alaska. Study objectives were to determine behavioral characteristics of bears in relation to sex and age, changes in social behavior over a 40-day long fishing season, social and environmental parameters correlated with the occurrence of behavior, and to test the hypothesis that brown bears modify social behavior in a feeding aggregation to exploit a resource limited in time and space.
Over one-half of the agonistic interactions consisted of passive deferrals. Encounters that included …