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Post by brobear on Jan 23, 2022 0:10:45 GMT -5
A preliminary baseline status of the Syrian Brown Bear Ursus arctos syriacus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Ursidae) in Golestanak, Northern Iran
Abstract: Baseline information is lacking for the Syrian Brown Bear across the sub-species range, making it difficult to assess at any level. In the present investigation, our goal was to illustrate the population status of the Brown Bear in the Golestanak area, northern Iran, based on field surveys we conducted during the summers of 2011 and 2012. We counted a total of 30 and 21 bears in two consecutive years, with family groups consisting of more than half of the identified individuals. Sub-adults had the lowest contribution among the observed individuals, just below 10%, which may be due to their high dispersal behaviour to avoid adults. Our results provide a foundation for future systematic baseline investigations on the population status of the brown bear in northern Iran, which can be used in management programs. Aside from improving monitoring efforts within key habitats of the species, enhancing conservation efforts to secure the population is essential to safeguard this female core area.
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Post by brobear on Jan 23, 2022 0:12:45 GMT -5
Syrian brown bears:
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Post by brobear on Jan 23, 2022 0:13:42 GMT -5
Syrian brown bears:
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Post by brobear on Jul 1, 2022 3:56:33 GMT -5
I have no source for this photo, but while a poster claimed it to be a Himalayan red bear, my guess would be a Syrian brown bear. The Syrian bear at 'Tiger World' in North Carolina' looked exactly like this, including the blonde coat. With this brown bear is a moon bear.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jul 1, 2022 4:15:53 GMT -5
/\ If not mistaken, it was either you or King Kodiak who called that bear a Himalayan brown bear. The brown bear looks pretty submissive in terms of body language.
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Post by brobear on Jul 1, 2022 5:17:17 GMT -5
/\ If not mistaken, it was either you or King Kodiak who called that bear a Himalayan brown bear. The brown bear looks pretty submissive in terms of body language. Which appears submissive is debatable, but I think you're right. The brown bear is looking away from the moon bear, which is facing the brown bear. Also, the moon bear has lots of space behind himself so is not backing away. But in reality, perhaps they are used to each other's company. I'd like to think so.
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Post by brobear on Aug 18, 2022 11:35:25 GMT -5
Assessing the status of Syrian brown bears in the Iranian Caucasus: research for conservation www.researchgate.net/publication/268815450_Assessing_the_status_of_Syrian_brown_bears_in_the_Iranian_Caucasus_research_for_conservation INTRODUCTION The Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus) was formerly thriving throughout the Middle East and Caucasus, but because of habitat degradation and intensified illegal killings it is now one of the highly threatened subspecies of brown bears (Garshelis and McLellan, 2011). The knowledge of this subspecies’ natural history is extremely limited and many populations have gone extinct before any ecological study could be performed (Garshelis and McLellan, 2011). In Iran, bear populations are presently confined to small and patchy habitats across two main mountainous chains in north along the Caspian Sea and throughout the north-west to south-western country (Gutleb and Ziaie, 1999). All these populations are thought to undergone human-caused precipitous declines over the past decades, but the extent of this decline and their current status is unknown (Gutleb and Ziaie, 1999; Ziaie, 2008). This emerges an urgent need to quantify reliable population estimates of this subspecies. Proper conservation planning of endangered wildlife populations is closely tied to availability of scientifically-sound abundance and distribution data (Nichols and Williams, 2006). However, inquiring high quality data for wide-ranging rare or elusive species inhabiting remote habitats is extremely challenging. Traditional monitoring techniques for vertebrate populations (e.g. indirect counts of presence via sign or track surveys, trapping, or radio-tracking) are usually complicated to be applied on large-bodied rare or elusive mammals (Norris et al., 2011). Non-invasive collection of DNA sources (e.g. faeces, hairs, feathers) are nowadays promising tools for monitoring these populations.
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Post by brobear on Aug 18, 2022 11:41:11 GMT -5
Syrian brown bear Accepted scientific name: Ursus arctos syriacus (Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1828) www.bearconservation.org.uk/syrian-brown-bear/Description: The smallest subspecies of the brown bear, about two to two and a half metres in length and weighing up to around 250 kg. (551 pounds). The pelage is greyish-brown, generally of a pale shade. Fur near the shoulders is usually longer and may be darker with sometimes a dark stripe down the back and sometimes a dark brown patch on the top of the head. Often the legs are darker than the rest of the body. The only bear in the world known to have white claws. Range: Northern Armenia, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia in Georgia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey and Turkmenistan. The bear became extinct in Syria around fifty years ago, and much longer ago than that in Israel, Lebanon and the Sinai Peninsula. Habitat: The forests, grasslands and meadows of the mountain regions of its range. Status: Declining population; endangered. Overall however, Ursus arctos as a species is listed as “of least concern” by the IUCN and listed in CITES Appendix II. Life span: Presumed to be in the region of 20 to 25 years in the wild. Food: Omnivorous. Eats fruit, berries, seeds, plants, grasses, nuts, grubs, and small mammals. Will also enter agricultural land in former habitat andconsume cultivated grains and domesticated livestock. Behaviour: Information on this subspecies is sparse. Builds a winter den in caves or tree hollows (frequently in the higher altitude birch forests). Mating is believed to occur between May and July with cubs born in the winter den around January or early February. Threats: Habitat loss, mainly through the development of agriculture, increases incidences of conflict with humans. In addition poaching, hunting and the trade in bear-parts for medicine all adversely affect the remaining bears..
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Post by Montezuma on Jan 6, 2023 5:20:24 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Jan 6, 2023 5:39:43 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jan 6, 2023 6:21:39 GMT -5
Average mature male Himalayan brown bear - 135kg = 298 pounds. Average mature female Himalayan brown bear - 70kg = 154 pounds. Female Gobi bear ( 21 years old - 48 kg. ) - 105.82 pounds. Male Gobi bear ( 5 years old - 108 kg. ) - 238.10 pounds. Male Gobi bear ( 10 years old - 155 kg. ) - 341.72 pounds. Syrian Brown Bear - 220 to 250 pounds. domainofthebears.proboards.com/thread/1469/smallest-brown-bear-subspecies
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Post by brobear on Jan 6, 2023 6:24:46 GMT -5
Perhaps in some locations, Syrian brown bears are grizzly sized bears. But the majority, living in poor barren ground, are small (for brown bears).
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Post by brobear on Jan 6, 2023 7:50:42 GMT -5
From reply#59; Stretching from Northern Iran’s lush range off the Caspian Sea, to the Caucasus mountains, and into Turkey, Syrian brown bears are quite small. Still a bear however, they can measure up to four and a half feet from nose to tail and weigh over 500 pounds.
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Post by Montezuma on Jan 7, 2023 5:22:35 GMT -5
I guess those grizzly sized syrian brown bears might be in the Azerbijan, turkey and Georgian countries. In Iraq, Syria or Iran, its size may have been shrunk.
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Post by brobear on Jan 7, 2023 5:43:28 GMT -5
I guess those grizzly sized syrian brown bears might be in the Azerbijan, turkey and Georgian countries. In Iraq, Syria or Iran, its size may have been shrunk. 250 kilograms is equal to 551.16 pounds which pretty-much corresponds with reply#59; "Still a bear however, they can measure up to four and a half feet from nose to tail and weigh over 500 pounds." But, the 2.5 meters (8 feet 2.40 inches) just can't be right. That is coastal brown bear size.
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