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Collar cams offer a bear's eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska's desolate North Slope
Washington State University researchers use collar cameras on 12 of about 300 North Slope grizzlies to study diet, behavior, and impacts of oil development.
- Washington State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are outfitting twelve collared grizzly bears with cameras to document their lives on Alaska's North Slope, an area covering about 94,000 square miles.
- Researchers say the project aims to learn how about 300 grizzly bears on the North Slope obtain food, what they eat, and whether they hunt musk ox to inform management, noting the bears reach up to 350 pounds.
- Field teams fitted loose video collars that captured 4–6 second clips every 10 minutes in spring and summer and every five minutes in fall, storing up to 17 hours before data retrieval in August and September.
- First-Year footage shows bears feeding on caribou and musk ox carcasses, attacking caribou calves, and displaying behaviors like playing, fighting, foraging, napping, swimming, and peaceful wolf pack encounters.
- The study will continue for another two years, with plans to add 24 more collars, and researchers said they measure weight gain and body fat to assess survival during about 8 months of hibernation.
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Collar cams offer a bear's eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska's desolate North Slope
Researchers at Washington State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are using collar cams to study a remote population of grizzly bears on Alaska's North Slope.
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