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Scavenging Effects of Large Canids

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Population responses of common ravens to reintroduced gray wolves

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Scavenging and the ecology of fear: do animal carcasses create islands of risk on the landscape?

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Multiple anthropogenic interventions drive puma survival following wolf recovery in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Food caching by bears: A literature review and new observations for Asiatic and American black bears

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Golden jackal as a new kleptoparasite for Eurasian lynx in Europe

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Living on the edge: spatial response of coyotes (Canis latrans) to wolves (Canis lupus) in the subarctic

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Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus)

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Remarkable Adaptations of the American Black Bear Help Explain Why it is the Most Common Bear: A Long-Term Study from the Center of its Range

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Influence of tree cover on carcass detection and consumption by facultative vertebrate scavengers

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Carcass provisioning and intra-guild risk avoidance between two sympatric large carnivores

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Eavesdropping in solitary large carnivores: Black bears advance and vocalize toward cougar playbacks

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Bears in Human-Modified Landscapes: The Case Studies of the Cantabrian, Apennine, and Pindos Mountains

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Preventing a series of unfortunate events: Using qualitative models to improve conservation

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Species roles and key interactions in vertebrate scavenger communities

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Kleptoparasitism and complexity in a multi-trophic web

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A dispersing bear in Białowieża Forest raises important ecological and conservation management questions for the central European lowlands

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Patterns of Bear Attacks on Humans, Factors Triggering Risky Scenarios, and How to Reduce Them

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A biological invasion impacts ecosystem services: cane toads change the rate of scavenging and the suite of scavengers

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Intraguild interactions and abiotic conditions mediate occupancy of mammalian carnivores: co‐occurrence of coyotes–fishers–martens

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Scavenging by fishers in relation to season and other scavengers

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A global assessment of large terrestrial carnivore kill rates

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Systematics, Evolution, and Genetics of Bears

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Foraging risk in scavenging ecology: A study of scavenger behavior and patterns of bacterial growth

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Using camera traps to assess carcass use and the intraguild dynamics of understudied African mesocarnivores

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Efficacy of automated detection of motion in wildlife monitoring videos

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Sloth Bear ( Melursus ursinus )

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An Uncomfortable Neighborhood: Presence Evolution of Two Competing Carnivores in North‐Eastern Italy

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Andean Bear (Tremarctos ornatus)

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Lion lords and sharing hyaenas: Carnivore guild dynamics around elephant carcasses

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Conservation and Management of Bears

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Predicting ecological outcomes using fuzzy interaction webs

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Dental microwear analysis of Kudaro cave bears: Insights into dietary evolution from the Middle to Late Pleistocene

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Efficacy of attractants for detecting eastern spotted skunks: an experimental approach

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Mating Strategies

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Ecological gatekeeping: Black-backed jackals are left to crave carrion in absence of large facultative scavengers

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Influence of Human Hunting Strategies and Large Carnivore Presence on Population Dynamics of European Facultative Scavengers

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Spatiotemporal patterns of small carnivores in a human-dominated forest landscape shared with apex predators

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Interspecific Interactions between Brown Bears, Ungulates, and Other Large Carnivores

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Data from: The comparative effects of large carnivores on the acquisition of carrion by scavengers

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Trophic Facilitation or Limitation? Comparative Effects of Pumas and Black Bears on the Scavenger Community

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Scavenger Assemblage Behavior at Puma Kills in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California

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Can't bear the competition: Energetic losses from kleptoparasitism by a dominant scavenger may alter foraging behaviors of an apex predator

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Human activity and footprint have differential effects on scavenger assemblages at carrion provided by apex carnivores

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