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Personalizing climate change: spy cameras document polar bear behaviors on and off sea ice
2015-11-02 10:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Polar bear populations are threatened by the loss of Arctic sea ice they use for hunting, and filmmakers and researchers are using remote cameras to better understand how the bears use ice and respond to the novel conditions resulting from global climate change. As Alysa McCall, field programs manager at Polar Bears International, explained in an email to WildTech, Remote camera systems provide the opportunity for nearly undisturbed observations of wildlife behavior.[F]or understanding an individual...
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