An incident of polar bear infanticide and cannibalism on Phippsøya, Svalbard

Polar Record

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 171-173

  Stone, Ian R ^a   Derocher, Andrew E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CANNIBALISM; INFANTICIDE; POLAR REGION;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 33947720063     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: 14753057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247407246170     Document Type: Article

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