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Author Stonorov, Derek, author.

Title Watch the bear : a half century with the brown bears of Alaska / Derek Stonorov
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. We Thought the World Would Never Run Out of Wild Animals -- 2. Causation and Function -- 3. Meeting Molly -- 4. My Best Choice -- 5. Egegik and Akutaq -- Part 2 -- 6. First Bear -- 7. A Dance of Displeasure -- 8. Now I Understand-Social Bears -- 9. Becharof Days -- 10. How Do You Know That? -- Part 3 -- 11. Big Rock Candy Mountain -- 12. Sex, Drugs, and Confrontation -- 13. Signals and Rituals -- 14. The Crux of the Biscuit-Extraordinary Bears -- 15. Higher Education -- 16. Hell for Stout -- Part 4 -- 17. Return to McNeil -- 18. Being Alpha -- 19. Where the Bears Are -- 20. Ages and Stages -- 21. Bonds and Maturity -- 22. Freude der Bären -- Part 5 -- 23. Alaska Bear Quest -- 24. Ephraim River -- 25. Bear Watching -- 26. Snow Bear -- 27. Sterling -- 28. Safety in Bear Country
Summary "Derek Stonorov has spent his life studying brown bear behavior in Alaska as a student and staff member of the world famous McNeil River Game Sanctuary. His new book chronicles half a century of his remarkable field experience with brown bears as a viewing guide and educator"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 06, 2023)
Subject Brown bear -- Alaska
Brown bear -- Behavior -- Alaska
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
NATURE / Animals / Bears.
Brown bear -- Behavior
Brown bear
Alaska
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022031538
ISBN 9781496234964
1496234960