Behaviour of solitary adult Scandinavian brown bears (Ursus arctos) when approached by humans on foot

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Moen, Gro Kvelprud ^a   Støen, Ole Gunnar ^a,b   Sahlén, Veronica ^a   Swenson, Jon E ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEAR; BEAR HUMAN ENCOUNTER; BROWN BEAR; FEMALE; FLIGHT; FLIGHT INITIATION DISTANCE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SCANDINAVIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; URSUS ARCTOS; VEGETATION; VOCALIZATION; AGING; ANIMAL; FOOT; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; WALKING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOVEMENT; SCANDINAVIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; URSIDAE; WALKING;

EID: 84857401860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031699     Document Type: Article

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