First recorded case of female Brown bear (Ursus arctos: Ursidae) with five second year cubs

We report the first case of a super-large brown bear (Ursus arctos) litter surviving until the second year of life. In the Land of the Leopard National Park, using camera traps, we recorded a female with five cubs two times – in March and in December 2017. Litters with more than four cubs are extrem...

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Published inNature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 104 - 107
Main Authors Sedash, Gleb A., Matiukhina, Dina S., Sonin, Petr L., Blidchenko, Ekaterina Yu, Storozhuk, Victor B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Fund for Support and Development of Protected Areas "Bear Land" 01.01.2018
Subjects
camera traps
extra-large litter
Land of the Leopard National Park
Russian Far East
Ursus arctos
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Summary:We report the first case of a super-large brown bear (Ursus arctos) litter surviving until the second year of life. In the Land of the Leopard National Park, using camera traps, we recorded a female with five cubs two times – in March and in December 2017. Litters with more than four cubs are extremely rare for brown bears, and are known for newborn cubs only. We report the first documented evidence of a five-cub litter, which are very close to surviving through the first two years of their life while bear cub mortality is extremely high.
ISSN:2500-008X
2500-008X
DOI:10.24189/ncr.2018.015