Resource: Bear Necessities
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QuickTime Video
Length: 3m 54s
Size: 10.7 MB
Fundamental to the survival of the grizzly bears of Yellowstone National Park is a sufficient supply of its four key natural foods: meat, cutthroat trout, moths, and whitebark pine. Not only do these foods provide the grizzlies with nutrients vital to their diet, but the location of the food helps to keep grizzlies safe from humans. Due to various factors, the supply of each of the four foods is either gravely threatened or faces an uncertain future. This video from Nature examines these four foods as they relate to the survival of the grizzlies of Yellowstone.
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Loading reviews...Teachers' Domain, Bear Necessities, published November 18, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/nat08.living.reg.needs.bearnecess/
- Background Essay
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Print Background EssayGrizzly bears were once scarce in Yellowstone National Park and on their way to extinction. After becoming designated as an Endangered Species over three decades ago, governmental protections have allowed these natural predators to make a comeback. But the grizzly’s success has come at a destructive and often dangerous price for people living nearby. Maintaining a delicate balance between humans and the resurgent grizzlies continues to challenge conservationists today.
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K-12 Subject:
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Source: Nature: "The Good, the Bad, and the Grizzly"
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Major corporate support for the Nature collection was provided by Canon U.S.A. and SC Johnson. Additional support was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the nation’s public television stations.