Xueying Wang, Ryoji Umemoto, Mizuki Kato, Takashi Hayakawa Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is one of the most famous mammals known for itsunique biology. They phylogenetically belong to the family Ursidae (bears) and, therefore,…
Naoki Takekoshi, Jumpei Tomiyasu, Yojiro Yanagawa, Naoki Ohnishi, TomokoNaganuma, Seungyun Baek, Miu Itoh, Tatsuhito Nishiwaki, Chinatsu Kozakai, Shinsuke Koike,Koji Yamazaki Sexual hormones play a crucial role in reproductive behavior of mammals. Testosterone, a…
Hinako Katsushima and Itsuro Koizumi Some mammals have conspicuous marking sites, such as rubbing trees of cheetahs andcommunal latrines of otters. While such marking sites are considered to play important roles inintraspecific communication,…
Lori Homstol, Sage Raymond, Claire Edwards, Anthony N. Hamilton, ColleenCassady St. Clair Conflict between humans and black bears (Ursus americanus) occurs throughout North Americawith increasing public demand to replace lethal management with non-lethal…
Taiki Ito and Tohru Ikeda In Hokkaido, northern Japan, brown bears are appearing in urban areas and causing human-bear conflicts. One reason for bears to appear in human settlements is their attraction toanthropogenic…
Andrea Fuentes and Sara Flores Andean bears (Tremarctos ornatus) are the only bear species that lives in South Americadistributed throughout the Tropical Andes, one of the most diverse ecoregions and stronglythreatened by constant…
Griffin Finkbeiner, Gregory W. Thiemann, Melissa P. Galicia, Alyssa M. Bohart Arctic ecosystems have been disproportionately impacted by climate change, warming at a ratefour times faster than the global average. Polar bears (Ursus…
Roxana Rojas-VeraPinto, Viviana Albarracín, Adriana Reyes Women play an active role in the study and conservation of the Andean bear despite facingchallenges during their work related to gender stereotypes and physiological process. Ourresearch…
Megan Turnock, Lisette Waits, Justin Teisberg, Wayne Kasworm, Matthew Falcy,Michael Proctor Genetic monitoring is important in fragmented populations, particularly in small populationsthat rely on gene flow to maintain genetic diversity. Grizzly bear (Ursus…
Roxanne D. MacLean, Gregory W. Thiemann, Katie R.N. Florko, Steven H. Ferguson,Kelsey F. Johnson, Christine Michel, David J. Yurkowski The Arctic climate is warming roughly four times faster than the global average, causing a…
Eva Filipczykova, Melanie Clapham, Russell C. Van Horn, Owen T Nevin, Jorge LuisArmijos Barros, Aleš Vorel Olfactory signaling is the most efficient mode of animal communication when the intervalbetween signaller and receiver is…
Eva Filipczykova, Bernd Nonnenmacher, Christopher Schmidt, Žaneta Křišťanová,Aleš Vorel, Koen Cuyten The state of Czech Republic currently keeps seven bears at four castle moats (the castles ofČeský Krumlov, Konopiště, Náchod, and Točník), i.e.…