When it comes to interesting lines on a resume, stud manager for Wayne Newton tends to stand out. “It was an interesting job,” said Nina Woodford, director of WSU’s Office of the Campus Veterinarian (OCV). “I wanted to try horse breeding, so I lived near Las Vegas and worked on Wayne Newton’s horse ranch. I’m […]
Grizzlies show no clinical signs of disease following short-term consumption of saturated fats, but scientists question long-term health By Natalie Sopinka, Communications Coordinator, Canadian Science Publishing Campgrounds and cottages are getaways for humans. They are also locations where grizzly bears acquire appetites for human foods high in saturated fats—foods associated with many diseases. A new […]
“The bear’s sense of smell is the stuff of legend,” said Heiko Jansen, associate professor of integrative physiology and neuroscience at WSU. “Stories abound about them smelling things from miles away.” But legend and science are very different things, so Jansen and colleagues are working to quantify just how sensitive a bear’s sense of smell […]
This summer, the WSU bears sported some new accessories: energy-monitoring collars. But a few weeks ago, those collars came off for the winter. “We put them on early in the summer,” said WSU doctoral student Tony Carnahan. “But as they’ve been gaining weight to get ready for hibernation, we didn’t want the collars to get […]
The WSU Bear Center has a treadmill, but it’s not exercise equipment to get in shape. It’s helping scientists learn more about how much energy bears use when they’re walking at various speeds.
WSU researchers are studying bears’ fat cells to figure out how they can ‘switch’ on and off from what would be a diabetic state in humans.
Several of our bears at the WSU Bear Center have some new brightly colored jewelry: energy-monitoring collars. The collars will collect vital information from the bears and contribute to a research project.
WSU graduate student Joy Erlenbach is spending her summer in Alaska’s Katmai National Park on a bear research project. Read her account of the work she’s doing.
Hibernating bears have evolved to add as much fat as possible each fall so they can survive several months without eating, and WSU researchers are working to figure out how they do it.
The WSU Bear Center has a treadmill that will be used to measure the energy cost for various activities, including lying, sitting, standing and walking.
