Tag: "bear"

Salmon Runs, Grizzly Bear Dreams

Salmon Runs, Grizzly Bear Dreams

Using grizzly bears in the Pacific Northwest as a proxy for the benefits salmon deliver to ecological communities, a new study argues that letting more salmon migrate into coastal streams will lead to downstream improvements for the ecosystem and eventually the offshore salmon catch.

 
Liza Gross

Post on Apr 18, 2012 by from

Working Dogs for Conservation

Working Dogs for Conservation

With unemployment at an all time low, it seems controversial that some very solid jobs are going to non-humans, but there are just some things that humans will never be qualified to do.

 
Amy Gotliffe

Post on Dec 09, 2009 by

Mittens for Bears and Other Tales

Mittens for Bears and Other Tales

Why do Moon Bears need you to knit? Once upon a time in the far away land of Hong Kong, a woman named Jill Robinson discovered that beautiful moon bears where being held captive in tiny cages in China and farmed (through their bellies) as a living source for bear bile, which is used in [...]

 
Amy Gotliffe

Post on May 07, 2008 by

"So, did you go get that bear yourself?"

"So, did you go get that bear yourself?"

Ting explores Halloween enrichment. No, that is not a real giant candy corn. Zoo guests and especially young students often ask us how we get our animals, imagining myself or a zoo keeper running after zebras in the savanna sun with nets and ropes. Of course, this is quite illegal these days and I would [...]

 
Amy Gotliffe

Post on Nov 21, 2007 by