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Photos provide information on age, but not kinship, of Andean bear

Using photos of captive Andean bears of known age and pedigree, and photos of wild Andean bear cubs <6 months old, we evaluated the degree to which visual information may be used to estimate bears’ ages and assess their kinship. We demonstrate that the ages of Andean bear cubs ≤6 months old may b...

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Autores principales: Van Horn, Russell C., Zug, Becky, Appleton, Robyn D., Velez-Liendo, Ximena, Paisley, Susanna, LaCombe, Corrin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4512767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26213647
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1042