Stable isotopes and the metabolism of the European cave bear - Oecologia
- ️Turk, I.
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Abstract
Isotopic analyses of fossil bones of the extinct European cave bear indicate that this animal was a hibernator with the same unusual metabolic processes as some modern bear species. This finding provides useful biological and archaeological information on an extinct species, and the methods themselves may prove generally useful in studies of the metabolisms of modern bears, other hibernators, and perhaps of starving animals.
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Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A1S6 Canada, e-mail: Erle_Nelson@sfu.ca, , , , , , CA
D. E. Nelson
Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, S-10691, Stockholm, Sweden, , , , , , SE
A. Angerbjörn
Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-10691, Stockholm, Sweden, , , , , , SE
K. Lidén
Scientific Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Science and Arts, 61000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, , , , ,
I. Turk
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Received: 6 October 1997 / Accepted: 31 March 1998
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Nelson, D., Angerbjörn, A., Lidén, K. et al. Stable isotopes and the metabolism of the European cave bear. Oecologia 116, 177–181 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420050577
Issue Date: August 1998
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420050577