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The smell of success: Reproductive success related to rub behavior in brown bears

Several species of bears are known to rub deliberately against trees and other objects, but little is known about why bears rub. Patterns in rubbing behavior of male and female brown bears (Ursus arctos) suggest that scent marking via rubbing functions to communicate among potential mates or competi...

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Autores principales: Morehouse, Andrea T., Loosen, Anne E., Graves, Tabitha A., Boyce, Mark S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7928475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33657186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247964