Grizzly bear-man relationships in Yellowstone National Park
Craighead FC. 1971. Grizzly bear-man relationships in Yellowstone National Park. BioScience. 21(16):845-857
Two questions the authors wish to explore are can the grizzly bear and modern man co-exist in the congested environments of our large national parks? Specifically, can man and grizzly live together in Yellowstone? Secondly, if they can co-exist, how should man acheive this? Since 1959, they have captured, examined and released over 550 grizzlies, immobilized and individually color-marker 256 and logged over 40,000 man-hours observing and recording their activities and behavior. In addition, 24 individual grizzlies have been fitted with radios and radio-monitored for approximately 30,000 hours in order to obtain data on movements, home ranges, food habits, social and denning behavior, and an understanding of bear-man relationships.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Craighead, Frank
- Units
- YELL
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Behavior, Capture, Ecology, Feeding, Food, Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos), Human Impact, Human-Animal Encounters, Mammals, Monitoring, Natural Resource Management, Population, Radio Telemetry, Size, Tagging