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Face-to-face with a 250-kg grizzly: how I study bears in the Rocky Mountains

Clayton Lamb tracks bears to help reduce conflict with humans.
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Clayton and a BC Conservation Officer kneels next to the head of an anaesthetised grizzly bear

Clayton Lamb is a postdoctoral researcher at the universities of British Columbia and Montana. He is based in the First Nations territory of ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa and Jaffray. Credit: Janet Ng

In this picture, I’m face to face with an anaesthetized 250-kilogram male grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), which was caught near Sparwood and Elkford in Canada. With help from conservation inspector Joe Caravetta, who is sitting next to me, and my field technician Laura Smit, I’m putting a GPS-enabled collar on the bear so that we can track his movements.

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Nature 608, 232 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02077-0

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