• DOI:10.7589/0090-3558-41.2.298
Corpus ID: 43774546

DISEASES AND MORTALITY IN FREE-RANGING BROWN BEAR (URSUS ARCTOS), GRAY WOLF (CANIS LUPUS), AND WOLVERINE (GULO GULO) IN SWEDEN

@inproceedings{Mrner2005DISEASESAM,
  title={DISEASES AND MORTALITY IN FREE-RANGING BROWN BEAR (URSUS ARCTOS), GRAY WOLF (CANIS LUPUS), AND WOLVERINE (GULO GULO) IN SWEDEN},
  author={T. M{\"o}rner and H. Eriksson and C. Br{\"o}jer and K. Nilsson and H. Uhlhorn and E. {\AA}gren and C. H. Segerstad and D. Jansson and D. Gavier-Wid{\'e}n},
  booktitle={Journal of wildlife diseases},
  year={2005}
}

T. Mörner, H. Eriksson, +6 authors D. Gavier-Widén

Published in Journal of wildlife diseases 2005

Biology, Medicine

Ninety-eight brown bears (Ursus arctos), 20 gray wolves (Canis lupus), and 27 wolverines (Gulo gulo), all free-ranging, were submitted to the National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, during 1987–2001 for investigation of diseases and causes of mortality. The most common cause of natural death in brown bears was infanticide. Infanticide also was observed in wolverines but not in wolves. Traumatic injuries, originating from road or railway accidents, were the most common cause of death in… CONTINUE READING

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