Cool baths help bears adapt to warm summers

Grizzly bear cooling down in water.

Learn how joint work between WSU and U Idaho is contributing to a better understanding of grizzly bear thermoregulation and their ability to meet environmental challenges and its implications regarding climate change.

The research was part of a joint effort by researchers at Washington State University, the University of Idaho, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S. Geological Survey and the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team in Montana.

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Article courtesy of Billings Gazette- Brett French Jan 17, 2021