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| Author: Terry Debruyn
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 921932
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1
ISBN: 1558216421
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.7850977749
EAN: 9781558216426
ASIN: 1558216421
Publication Date: November 1, 1999
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Just Amazing June 5, 2000
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I can only say that this is one amazing book. Buy it and read it. It's a rare treat.
Right Spot On May 12, 2000
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have scoured high and low to enjoy the information that only biologists from the field can share about the intimate lives of animals. It is very hard to find information of the type in Walking with Bears, and it should be seriously digested and openly applauded. I've heard what the game commissions have had to say, and deep down inside I already knew what this book has now confirmed. The black bear should be a cherished national emblem in the wild for all generations to appreciate . After all, it is ursus americanus.
 One on one with black bears February 28, 2000
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
The vast majority of popular books on bears emphasize how dangerous they can be. This is true even of most books which overview bear natural history and ecology. There are three reasons. First, "Scare" is what sells. Second, no writer wants to "lead" a reader to attempt something dangerous. Third, scientists who study bears typically spend a lot more time dealing with bears in traps, where the animals are frightened and defensive, than with free-ranging bears. The bear's fear and the biologist's fear combine to give biologists the perception that the bears are highly aggressive and dangerous. In fact, whoofing, huffing, jaw popping, ground slapping and other threat displays are more manifestations of fear than aggression. So one's safety lies more in calming the bear than in trying to intimidate it -- contrary to common "wisdom." These insights grew out of getting to know bears personally, one on one; by winning their trust so that one could spend hours or days with them in the wild. This was first done on a hit-and-miss basis with Alaska Peninsula brown/grizzly bears by Fish & Game biologist Jim Faro, and then by a series of grad students from Utah State University, working at McNeil Falls: Derek Stonorov, Al Egbert, Mike Luque and Tom Bledsoe. Alaska Fish & Game biologist Larry Aumiller was hired by Faro to guide visitors to safely watch bears at McNeil, a responsibility at which Aumiller has excelled for roughly 20 years. (Tim Treadwell's "observations" from the same general region -- Among Grizzlies -- are entertaining though not entirely accurate) My own research on free ranging Alaska grizzly and black bears date back to 1972. Yet, it was Lynn Rogers and his assistant Greg Wilker who really refined "walking with bears" to gather highly detailed data on behavior and life history. Now, Rogers' protege, Terry Debryun has carried the research in several new directions, particuarly in the study of scent marking. Debryun's experiences constitute the most detailed and engaging scientific portrait of the secret life of individual bears ever published. Readers can follow Debryun's experiences with sows Nettie and Carmen and their cubs over the course of a year, supplemented with flashbacks to earlier years. For those interested in knowing black bears as they really are, as individual personalities, this book is without peer. What countless people have dreamed of doing, Debryun has actually done. This is a fine read which I recommend highly.
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