Tool-use in the brown bear (Ursus arctos)
@article{Deecke2012TooluseIT, title={Tool-use in the brown bear (Ursus arctos)}, author={V. Deecke}, journal={Animal Cognition}, year={2012}, volume={15}, pages={725-730} }
This is the first report of tool-using behaviour in a wild brown bear (Ursus arctos). Whereas the use of tools is comparatively common among primates and has also been documented in several species of birds, fishes and invertebrates, tool-using behaviours have so far been observed in only four species of non-primate mammal. The observation was made and photographed while studying the behaviour of a subadult brown bear in south-eastern Alaska. The animal repeatedly picked up barnacle-encrusted… CONTINUE READING
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