On June 11th 2026, Dr. Alex Thiel, an ecologist and researcher at the University of Inland Norway (INN), received the Norecopa 3 R prize, which was established to acknowledge outstanding efforts to advance the 3Rs (replace, reduce, refine) in connection with animal research. The price was rewarded for the work Alex did as part of her PhD, in which she investigated the effects of capture, anaesthesia and invasive methods in the bears of our study population. She combined behav

Jacopo Morelli has been looking into the physiological effects of capture and anesthesia of brown bears and other wildlife species over the last 10 years. In the past six months, his cutting-edge research and outstanding dedication to this matter were rewarded with the William R. Lance Award and the Amanda Hawkswood Wildlife Health and Welfare Research Grant by the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, the American Coll

Rick successfully defended his dissertation entitled " "Affairs in the forest": The social system of a brown bear population " at the University of South-Eastern Norway on August 28, 2025. Congratulations Dr. Heeres!

Alex successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Effects of capture in Scandinavian brown bears" at the University of Inland Norway on May 16, 2025. Congratulations Dr. Thiel!

For our 40th anniversary, we summarized key findings, methods, and results of the research conducted over the past four decades. You can...

In October 2024, Sanzhar Sakenovich Kantarbayev, a junior researcher at the Center for Biocenology and Hunting, completed an internship...

Check out this new paper that leveraged a unique dataset of 758 annual GPS movement trajectories from 375 brown bears ( Ursus arctos )...

Ashlee successfully defended her dissertation entitled "The effects of diet and metabolism on the life history of an omnivorous...

Check out this new paper about maternal learning and dietary specialization in brown bears!

The International Association for Bear Research and Management organizes biannual conferences where the newest results from bear...

In this study we explore the social behavior of 🐻 in Scandinavia ! Answering what drives their sociality and if nonsocial/solitary...

Next time you want to do a cluster analysis on GPS collar data, check out the ‘ClusterApp’ for an easy and straightforward application to...

Boris successfully defended his dissertation entitled Lead (Pb) exposure and source tracing in Scandinavian brown bears (Ursus arctos) at...

We are deploying GPS collars on brown bears and moose and following them during spring in Sweden as part of a multispecies interaction...