Polar BearsIncludes chapters on polar bear biology, how to study them, conflicts between polar bears and man, conservation and environmental concerns, and the polar bears of Churchill. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. Appendix includes texts of management agreements. |
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Figures | 31 |
Distribution of polar bears | 62 |
Distribution of major shore leads polynyas and maternity denning habitat | 64 |
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adult females adult males Agreement Alaska animals ashore Baffin Baffin Island bear's bearded seal bears killed Beaufort Sea behavior biologist black bears breathing holes brown bears Canada Canadian Arctic Canadian Wildlife Service Cape Churchill captured caught Chukchi Sea coast of Hudson conservation denning area drifts dump ecology feeding female polar bears females with cubs floes freeze-up Greenland habitat harvest High Arctic home ranges Hudson Bay hunt seals Ian Stirling Inuit Inuk Inuk hunters Inuvialuit Island kilometers land lar bears large numbers learned litter mammals Manitoba maternity dens mating ment meters mother Northwest Territories Øritsland pack ice percent period polar bear populations polynyas predators pregnant females probably problem bears pups recaptured remain ringed seal sea ice sex classes snow snowdrifts sometimes Soviet species spring still-hunting studies subadults subpopulations summer survival Svalbard tagged temperature tion tracks Uspenski walking walruses watch Wildlife winter Wrangel Island yearling