
Patterns of Bear Attacks on Humans, Factors Triggering Risky ...
Although the total number of people seriously injured or killed by sloth bears during a given year is not known, within one Indian state. ( ... 
Brown bear (Ursus arctos) attacks resulting in human ... - CORE
In our study areas, intraspecific predation on yearling females was correlated positively with the number of adult males that had died 3 years ... 
SAFER PEOPLE - SAFER POLAR BEARS
During our study period (2001?2018), at least 81 bears involved in casualties were killed and 3 wounded (43% of. 196 casualties with reported outcome for bears) ... 
immediate and delayed behavior of scandinavian female brown ...
The 33 hunt- ers injured/killed by bears during our 40-year study period, divided by the average annual number of hunters, yields an annual per ... 
Encounters between brown bears and humans in Scandinavia
During the 147-year (1872?2018) study pe- riod, 8 people were killed by bears inside YNP (Table 1). Grizzly bears caused 7 of the fatalities and in 1 fatality ... 
Bear attacks on people in Slovakia in 2000 - 2016 - USN Open Archive
Two people were injured, three lost their lives, while 11 bears lost their lives. According to, in 12 of these incidences bear spray could have saved lives of ... 
Humans or bears: why not both?
There were about 4000-5000 brown bears on the Scandinavian Peninsula around 1850; with Norway having the densest population (Swenson et al., 1995). 
Does despotic behavior or food search explain the occurrence of ...
towards bears in Norway are people's concern for their and their families' safety (Røskaft et al. 2007). Swenson et al. (1999) reviewed the Scandinavian ... 
The diet of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard, Norway ...
During the period 2000 ? 2016, bears caused human injuries (but no fatalities) in 54 recorded incidents. The highest number of attacks occurred in 2014 (8) and ... 
Neither fish nor fowl. Isotopic evidence of a plant-based diet in ...
Moreover, from 2003, 34 bears have been found dead, of these, 15 died because of anthropogenic ... very high, causing the deaths of people, animals and thousands ... 
Behavior of the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos) when ...
In this report we review existing knowledge of human-bear conflicts and experiences with different conflict mitigation measures, provide an overview of official ... 
Characteristics of polar bears killed in defense of life and property in ...
In the south, 5 times as many males died annually, and in years with recorded adult male mortality, an average of 20% of the adult males died. The number of ... 
An Analysis of Brown Bear Management & Trade in Selected Range ...
We recorded an attack rate of 39.6 attacks/year globally: 11.4 attacks/year in North. America and 18.2 attacks/year in Europe (10 attacks/year, if we exclude ... 
A CITES risk assessment for polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
Problem bears were bears killed by managers, because they were involved in incidents with people in or near settlements. We also analyzed the ... 
Polar Bears - IUCN Portal
Citation: Obbard, M.E., Thiemann, G.W., Peacock, E., and DeBruyn, T.D. (eds) (2010). Polar Bears: Proceedings of the 15th Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC ...