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Andean Bear Symposium
Russ Van Horn is studying Andean bears in Peru. Read his previous blog, Andean Bears: Ready for Their Closeup? I’ve just left Lima after attending the Second International Symposium on Andean Bears....
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Andean Bears: Still Elusive
The cloud forest is, as you might expect, often cloudy.Russ Van Horn is studying Andean bears in Peru. Read his previous blog, Andean Bear Symposium. I’m in Lima now, on my way to San Diego from the...
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Dry-forest Bears of Peru
Setting out. Destination: the top of that mountain. Weight of pack: a lot! Think food and water for five days.The San Diego Zoo has two researchers studying bear habitat in Peru. Read a previous post,...
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The Bear Goes over the Mountain
Javier going to great lengths, as usual, to get his job done.San Diego Zoo researchers are in Peru to study Andean (or spectacled) bears. Read a previous post, To See A Bear. We awake in the predawn...
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Andean Bears: Camera Trappers
Photo of a hind footprint of an Andean bear in the cloud forest of southern Peru.It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post (see Bear Culture). To be honest, I was waiting until I could include a...
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Vegetarian Bears?
Here is what is left of an an epiphetic bromeliad eaten by an Andean bear. May 16 to 22, 2011, is Bear Awareness Week, and we hope you’ll join us in celebrating these amazing animals. Today we focus...
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Little Fruit, Thin Bears
This is a camera trap photo of the female Andean bear Magaly on December 7, 2009, when she was thin and in poor condition, before many ripe sapote fruit were available. It was about 16 months ago when...
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Andean Bear Sightings
Dimples in the sand show where Russ' sweat droplets landed. As I stepped up onto the ledge and looked down the rocky trail, I realized that I needed to take a break. It was just too hot and dry for me...
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Andean Bears: A Surprising Discovery
A member of our collaborative field team watches a cliff for bear activity. This summer my colleague Megan Owen and I were fortunate enough to have an intern working with us. Michael Forney was the...
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Favorite Andean Bear Food: Sapote
Some of these sapote flower buds may develop into food for Andean bears, Sechuran foxes, and other wildlife. In conservation research, we’re often interested in measuring variation across space and...
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