Digestibility of Foods and Anthropogenic Feeding of Black Bears in Virginia

<p> For years, bear hunters have provided an unknown amount of food to black bears <i>(Ursus americanus)</i> in Virginia, supplementing their natural food supply. Possible effects of feeding bears can be negative, such as food conditioning and habituation to people, or positive, s...

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Main Author: Gray, Rachel Masterson
Other Authors: Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34726
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08242001-163753/