🐻✨ A stunning 'golden' Cantabrian brown bear showing off its hiking skills! 🏔️ These bears master the art of climbing from an early age, learning from their mothers as soon as they leave the breeding den #CantabrianBears #WildlifeWonders #BearHiking

Mating from a female perspective: Do brown bear females play an active role in mate searching? The answer here link.springer.com/10.1186/s40462… #bears #movement #females #mating Evolutionary Ecology Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales IMIB - Instituto Mixto Investigación Biodiversidad maria mar delgado Daniele Falcinelli Alejandra Zarzo Arias Pino Garcia Sanchez

We're excited to welcome 4 new MSc students and one intern to our research group! Welcome María, Susana, Eva, Diego and Arancha! We hope you’ll enjoy fieldworks on brown bears and otters—and the adventure of preparing your first scientific manuscript! 😉 cantabrianbrownbear.org/people/

🧵(HILO) El sesgo científico se aprecia en muchos estudios sobre el comportamiento animal. En este caso, un equipo de investigación liderado por el #MNCN ha analizado los patrones de emparejamiento de los osos pardos poniendo el foco en las hembras. 👇 mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicaci%…

Ursus editors released Ursus: a history of the journal, tracing its evolution from 1968 Full article here: bioone.org/journals/ursus… Ursus has been a flagship program of IBA/ bearbiology, dedicated to disseminating science, education, and research on all eight bear species

El salmón atlántico, una especie única que estamos perdiendo por el maltrato a los ríos que habita y la sobrexplotación como recurso de pesca video de la campaña para la conservación del salmón en España youtube.com/watch?v=Sjh3Z0… para firmar la petición change.org/p/salvar-al-sa…

🐻🐻🐻One of the most beautiful #brownbear seasons in the #CantabrianMountains has begun. Here's a #female with two #cubs at her reproductive #den video recorded from approximately 1 km away, i.e., from a respectful distance🐾

We speak of human-bear conflicts when it may be more accurate to describe them as human-determined conflicts. This is exemplified here by the consequences of bird feeders (not essential) at home, when living close to a forest inhabited by bears. see also doi.org/10.26077/0cmj-…

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We just wrapped up the #otter marking behaviour experiment in the Cantabrian Mountains, granted by Evolutionary Ecology and Principality of Asturias. Incredible results and fascinating videos, here’s the final one. A beautiful way to end this project! Rafa Benjumea maria mar delgado

Trophic interactions are key to understanding the effects of global change on the distribution and functional role of the brown bear Global Change Biology doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70… Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Evolutionary Ecology IBA/ bearbiology IUCN

Encounters between brown bears and people are on the rise in some European countries. Check out these links to learn more about coexisting safely and avoiding conflicts: 🐻bearwise.org/bearwise-store… 🐻wildsafebc.com 🐻www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/en… 🐻revelstokebearaware.org

Global scale assessment of the human-induced extinction crisis of terrestrial carnivores science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Indigenous peoples’ lands emerge as crucial for carnivore population viability, potentially safeguarding 26% of carnivore ranges globally Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Science Advances

🔥INCENDIOS🔥 Yo solo soy una escritora que escribe sobre el paisaje. El paisaje de la Cabrera, el paisaje de la montaña, el de la Valdería, el de la Valduerna. Algunos de esos paisajes ya solo existen en mis libros. Esto es un texto de urgencia. lanuevacronica.com/opinion/facend…

The 29th International Conference on Bear Research & Management will be held in Pescasseroli, Italy, in the Central Apennines from September 20–25, 2026 api.neonemails.com/emails/content… IBA/ bearbiology

Diel activity patterns of Eurasian #otters in human-modified landscapes. Animal Behaviour sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Anthropogenic pressures and landscape features influence otter diel activity. Otters show increased diurnal activity outside of fishing season

Confirman cómo la actividad humana influye en el comportamiento de las nutrias mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicaci%… Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales IMIB - Instituto Mixto Investigación Biodiversidad CSIC Divulga Rafa Benjumea maria mar delgado

Las huellas del oso pardo agenciasinc.es/Reportajes/Las… vía SINC Alejandra Zarzo Arias Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Evolutionary Ecology

“The landscape of love”: sex-specific habitat-use during the mating season in a large carnivore Landscape Ecol: doi.org/10.1007/s10980… Distinct sex-specific habitat preferences during brown bear consorting behavior, supporting the evidence of female roam-to-mate Alejandra Zarzo Arias

Coexistencia con grandes carnívoros en Europa: cuando el sensacionalismo eclipsa la ciencia theconversation.com/coexistencia-c… Los grandes carnívoros se han convertido en piezas del tablero político utilizadas como armas simbólicas/chivos expiatorios CSIC Divulga Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Evolutionary Ecology