Do innate food preferences and learning affect crop raiding by American black bears?

Ursus

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-52

  Ditmer, Mark A ^a   Burk, Thomas E ^a   Garshelis, David L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

acorns; agricultural crops; corn; human bear conflicts; sunflowers; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS; URSUS AMERICANUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84934910328     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/URSUS-D-14-00028.1     Document Type: Article

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