Post by brobear on Nov 28, 2022 12:04:27 GMT -5
DOUBLE BEDROOM
With the help of radio tracking, it became possible to listen to bear hibernation in dens. However, due to the peculiarities of the biology of the bear, it is impossible for a person himself to penetrate into the bear's "bedroom" and observe the behavior and development of the offspring. The she-bear leaves the lair with the cubs and keeps her eyes on them for a long time, protecting them from all sorts of misfortunes. But they are almost impossible to observe visually. In the winter season of 2001-2002, three she-bears with collars at once - Dasha, Masha and Natasha brought cubs. However, how many exactly each had, scientists could not establish - having sensed a person, the females immediately took their offspring into the taiga thicket.
In the practice of the bear project, there was no case when a bear wintered twice in the same den. It turns out that the Himalayan bear does not necessarily hibernate in a hollow. For example, the same white-breasted Pasha built a lair on the ground every winter. He, like a bird, made a nest from spruce branches. The hunting opinion is not always true that white-breasted beetles for the winter necessarily lie in hollow poplars, lindens or cedars. This applies mainly to females, although they sometimes give birth in rocky and other not too secret shelters. Ivan Seredkin said that scientists more than once stumbled upon lairs built in open areas, even next to trails. So it doesn't cost anything for a brown rod or a tiger to kill a careless Himalayan.
The method of radio telemetry makes it possible to reveal individual, sex and age differences and patterns in the choice of wintering places by bears. This allows you to reveal the most interesting episodes from the life of tagged bears. And Seredkin told a story from the life of the white-breasted bear Antosha. About how this Himalayan settled down to spend the winter in the basal part of the trunk of a huge old poplar and how a brown rod bear smelled him. He almost got Antosha through a gap in the hollow, forcing the poor Himalayan to sit for a long time in the very top of the empty trunk, and then move into the hollow of another poplar. Based on the animal tracks, the scientists managed to establish that the connecting rod tried to hunt the white-breasted fellow here too, but this time the walls of the bedroom turned out to be too thick, and Antosha safely wintered in it until spring.
With the help of radio tracking, it became possible to listen to bear hibernation in dens. However, due to the peculiarities of the biology of the bear, it is impossible for a person himself to penetrate into the bear's "bedroom" and observe the behavior and development of the offspring. The she-bear leaves the lair with the cubs and keeps her eyes on them for a long time, protecting them from all sorts of misfortunes. But they are almost impossible to observe visually. In the winter season of 2001-2002, three she-bears with collars at once - Dasha, Masha and Natasha brought cubs. However, how many exactly each had, scientists could not establish - having sensed a person, the females immediately took their offspring into the taiga thicket.
In the practice of the bear project, there was no case when a bear wintered twice in the same den. It turns out that the Himalayan bear does not necessarily hibernate in a hollow. For example, the same white-breasted Pasha built a lair on the ground every winter. He, like a bird, made a nest from spruce branches. The hunting opinion is not always true that white-breasted beetles for the winter necessarily lie in hollow poplars, lindens or cedars. This applies mainly to females, although they sometimes give birth in rocky and other not too secret shelters. Ivan Seredkin said that scientists more than once stumbled upon lairs built in open areas, even next to trails. So it doesn't cost anything for a brown rod or a tiger to kill a careless Himalayan.
The method of radio telemetry makes it possible to reveal individual, sex and age differences and patterns in the choice of wintering places by bears. This allows you to reveal the most interesting episodes from the life of tagged bears. And Seredkin told a story from the life of the white-breasted bear Antosha. About how this Himalayan settled down to spend the winter in the basal part of the trunk of a huge old poplar and how a brown rod bear smelled him. He almost got Antosha through a gap in the hollow, forcing the poor Himalayan to sit for a long time in the very top of the empty trunk, and then move into the hollow of another poplar. Based on the animal tracks, the scientists managed to establish that the connecting rod tried to hunt the white-breasted fellow here too, but this time the walls of the bedroom turned out to be too thick, and Antosha safely wintered in it until spring.