Polar bears are showing up near Arctic communities more often, and headlines suggesting they are “hunting humans” have spread quickly across social media. The reality is far less dramatic but still ...

There is ever-growing global interest in the nature and effects of human-nonhuman interactions (anthrozoology) in all sorts of situations, and it's not at all surprising to learn that humans ...

“Coexistence” is a uniquely human concept. For much of the last century, we as a nation have fretted over how best to conserve our grizzly bear populations while minimizing the threat of attacks by ...

Sometimes you come across a photo of a bear sitting upright near a lake or on a mountain ridge, just staring out over the landscape. For a moment, it looks almost human, like someone who stopped ...

On the one hand, we see them as endearing, cuddly creatures, immortalised as objects of childhood comfort in the form of ...

Troubled by two “bear stories” recently published within days of each other by the Anchorage Daily News — one a commentary, the other a news article — I’ve decided I must speak a few words on behalf ...

After the most recent bear encounter in Mammoth Lakes, fear and misunderstanding are again taking over.