Summer Snow Dens Used by Polar Bears in the Canadian High Arctic

Authors

  • R.E. Schweinsburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic2616

Keywords:

Animal behaviour, Denning, Polar bears, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Bylot Island

Abstract

This paper describes the use of snow dens by polar bears during two summers on northern Baffin and Bylot Islands. More dens were found during 1976 than 1975, probably because of heavier snow during 1976. Dens were of three types, shallow surface pits, shallow dens, and deep burrows.

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Published

1979-01-01

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 2 (1979): June: 91–175

Section

Articles