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bear

(bâr)
n.
a. Any of various usually omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae that have a shaggy coat and a short tail and walk with the entire lower surface of the foot touching the ground.
b. Any of various other animals, such as the koala, that resemble a true bear.
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(1) A subculture in gay/bisexual male communities with events, codes and culture-specific identity that hinge around a hypermasculine identity
(2) A member of a subculture of gay/bisexual males who is hairy and often bearded. Some bears have embraced transgendered as well as non-gendered individuals
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Ursus arctos. In: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, IUCN 2011, Version 2011.2.
Population Status and Distribution of Himalayan Brown Bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus) in Musk Deer National Park Neelum, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Pakistan)
Mots cles : ours polaire; Ursus maritimus; grizzli; Ursus arctos; hybride; microsatellites; Extreme-Arctique; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; detroit du Vicomte de Melville
Recent hybridization between a polar bear and grizzly bears in the Canadian Arctic
This team is composed of researchers that have a mandate to study grizzly bear Ursus arctos population trends, determine their use of habitats, and examine land management policies in relation to preserving the grizzly bear in the Yellowstone Ecosystem, and representatives of the relevant federal and state agencies that have the management responsibility.
Challenges of managing a European brown bear population; lessons from Sweden, 1943-2013
Licanin, "Brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) damages at forest stands in Central Bosnia Canton," in Works of Faculty of Forestry University of Sarajevo, vol.
Biochemical Content of Cambium of Abies nephrolepis Eaten by Bears on the Far East of Russia
Acknowledgements.--We thank D Tinker, J Kent, R Lind, T Carmack, W Artz, and P Tickner for providing records, photographs, and video of Lynx observations, and M Cason for assistance with archiving records in Arctos.
Recent records of Lynx on the Alaska Peninsula
Matti and Stina, who run Lapland Canoe Central in Jokkmokk, just north of the Arctic Circle, tell me they've seen the ursus arctos fleetingly from the car.
IN THE LAP OF THE GODS; A new direct flight route to Swedish Lapland has opened up the region for long weekend breaks. SARAH MARSHALL reports
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is the most widely distributed bear in the world.
North American bears: get to know a little bit about the three most common species
As the northern latitudes warm, its distant cousin the brown or grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is moving farther north and occasionally interbreeding with the polar bear (U.
How polar bears adapt to Arctic
The whole is a collaboration between an author and a designer, with support from the University of Tromso and Arctos Research Network.
Svalbard Life
Despite this broad range of habitats, they are generally fond of treed areas, especially when found with grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) (Herrero 1972), and this is mirrored in their California distribution (Brown et al.
Black bears (Ursus americanus) as a novel potential predator of Agassiz's desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) at a California wind energy facility
Specimen records for both collections are available via Arctos (http://arctos.database.museum/).
Notes on the biology of the cixiid planthopper Cixius meridionalis (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea)
For years Fortune's 4,000-hectare Arctos Anthracite Project has generated opposition and controversy amongst the Tahltan.
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