It’s all about loving animals and wanting to make sure they’re properly cared for. That’s what drives WSU senior Amber Stotts in her career goal of working at a zoo or animal sanctuary. “I’ve always wanted to work with animals,” said Stotts, who is minoring in zoology and majoring in anthropology. The Manhattan, Kansas native […]
New CAHNRS Dean André Wright came face to face with the grizzlies of the WSU Bear Center in an informational visit Monday, July 30. Grizzlies at Washington State University are partners in research in important experiments affecting the fate of wild grizzly and polar bears, as well as science that could revolutionize how we solve […]
If bears are fed during hibernation, they wake up. But not completely. That’s the preliminary finding from a research study conducted this winter at the WSU Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center, where scientists fed seven bears glucose every day for 10 days. Four WSU bears were not fed during hibernation, serving as the control […]
At the Bear Center, they’re still called ‘the cubs’. But physiologically, they’re more like teenagers or young adults. The four youngest grizzly bears at the WSU Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center are now three and a half years old. They were born at the Center in 2015, and many cute photos were taken. But […]
If you love wildlife, working for Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game is basically the ultimate job. “As a research biologist, I worked with moose, river otters, wolverines, wolves, brown bears, black bears, mountain goats, and probably a few others I’m forgetting,” said Tony Carnahan, currently a Ph.D. student at WSU. One of his jobs […]
This summer at the WSU Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center, energy use is the order of the day. From cardiac monitors to special collars to foraging experiments, WSU researchers are trying to figure how bears gather energy and then spend it. “Bears in the wild have a very short time window to make their […]
Giving students a real-world assignment makes their classwork feel more worthwhile and can let their passions come through in a way a stock assignment may not. This past academic year, two WSU School of Design…
There’s camping, then there’s Alaska back-country, grizzly bear scientific research camping. That’s how WSU Ph.D. student Joy Erlenbach has spent the past three summers, and where she is right now. “We get dropped off in the middle of Katmai National Park by a float plane, then we’re on our own for a month,” Erlenbach said […]
The bears at the WSU Bear Research,Education, and Conservation Center spent September gaining weight at a tremendous rate, up to 10 pounds or more each week, preparing for another winter and hibernation. Starting in late October, they’ll slow down their food intake to get ready for hibernation. “Once they reach their hibernation weight, we’ll slowly […]
Is it because of their frightful — or grisly — nature or their grizzled appearance? It depends on which explorer wrote about the bear more than 200 years ago.
