Play Behavior of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) and Human Presence at Pack Creek, Admiralty Island, Alaska

January 1, 1990

Play Behavior of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) and Human Presence at Pack Creek, Admiralty Island, Alaska

Brown bears of all ages play. They use fighting movements and postures to interact harmlessly with conspecifics, they chase birds, they roll and slide, and they manipulate objects. Individual bears at the Pack Creek estuary on northern Admiralty Island played from less than 1% to over 20% of their total time in sight in 1987-8. Play frequencies in 1987-8 were independent of presence or absence of human visitors.

Author(s) Robert Fagen and Johanna Fagen
Volume 8
Issue
Pages 315-319
Publication Date 1 January 1990
DOI 10.2307/3872934
File Size 246.19 KB
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