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New study reveals complex relationships among grizzly bear activity, ecotourism, and salmon availability
A new study “Ecology of fear alters behaviour of grizzly bears exposed to bear-viewing ecotourism” in the journal Ecology finds that bears will avoid ecotourists on multiple spatial and temporal scales, and can take multiple weeks after encounters to return to their undisturbed activity levels. The ‘ecology of fear’ concept allows an understanding of how an animal’s perception of risk may…
