Hunting Laws Force Bear Cubs To Get More Attention From Their Mothers

Hunting Laws Force Bear Cubs To Get More Attention From Their Mothers

The results of an extensive study on bear cubs and their mothers suggest that human hunting, and how it has been more strictly regulated in recent years, has played an important role in influencing how mother bears raise their young.

Typically, adult female Scandinavian brown bears spend only an average of 1.5 years with their cubs, according to Norwegian University of Life Sciences professor Jon Swenson. It was rare in the past, he added, that mother bears and their cubs would travel in the same group for 2.5 years. But, as Phys.org noted, cubs are more likely to stay with their mothers for about a year longer than they did about 15 to 20 years ago, with Swenson stressing that people are “now an evolutionary force” influencing the behavior of bears, including the Scandinavian brown bear, which Norwegian and Swedish scientists have been keeping track of for more than three decades.

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