Effects of past climate changes

Climate change wiped out cave bears 13 millennia earlier than thought.Enormous cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, that once inhabited a large swathe of Europe, from Spain to the Urals, died out 27,800 years ago, around 13 millennia earlier than was previously believed, scientists have reported.The new date coincides with a period...

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Bear Vocalizations: What Do They Mean?

Being a zoo keeper I get asked a lot of questions about the animals I work with and one question that comes up a lot is: what type of vocalizations do animals make and what do they mean? Bears have several types of vocalizations. Some species vocalize more than others. Knowing what these sounds mean can help us understand...

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Village Books in Bellingham welcomes...

Join us on Wednesday, January 7th at 7pm as The Grizzly Bear Outreach Project and Village Books are proud to welcome to Bellingham David Knibb, author of Grizzly Wars: The Public Fight over the Great Bear.Long a magnificent symbol of the wild, grizzly bears are perhaps the most controversial species in North America....

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