Family breakup in brown bears: Are young forced to leave?

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 536-540

  Dahle, Bjørn ^a,b   Swenson, Jon E ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Family breakup; Parent offspring conflict; Ursus arctos; Weaning

Indexed keywords

BEAR; NATAL DISPERSAL; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; WEANING;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0037708445     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2003)084<0536:FBIBBA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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