First time together: North America's three bears on camera

The Conversation: Special to The Weather Network

Two polar bears walk past a camera trap in Wapusk National Park. (Douglas Clark), Author provided

Friday, November 23, 2018, 5:19 PM - North America’s three bear species — black bears, grizzly bears and polar bears — don’t typically live in the same place. But in Wapusk National Park, on the west coast of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba, we caught all three bears on camera — for the first time.

My colleagues and I began studying the bears in Wapusk in 2011, after more polar bears than expected began visiting new field camps in the park. We used remote cameras — a widespread, economical and non-invasive tool for studying wildlife — to find out why and when the polar bears were visiting these camps.

The cameras picked up more than 366 visits by polar bears to the camps in five years. They also detected other bears...https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/north-america-bear-species-grizzly-black-polar-on-camera-together-first-time-ever-wapusk-hudson-bay/117526

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