Watch the Bear

A Half Century with the Brown Bears of Alaska

Derek Stonorov (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3343-1 (ISBN)

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Derek Stonorov has spent the better part of fifty years watching brown bears as a research scientist and guide in some of Alaska’s most beautiful wild places. As a dyslexic kid who was more interested in hunting and cars than academics, he managed to collect objective data as well as make observations and insights about what he learned to call “the community of bears.” Watch the Bear takes the reader from the 1960s-when salmon were plentiful, Stonorov’s hair was long, and he could spend an entire summer watching hundreds of bears without seeing another human-to today, when bear guiding companies are ubiquitous and solitude in bear country is a whole lot harder to find.

Mixing memoir, anecdotes, and science, Stonorov provides an inquiry into brown bear communication and social behavior as well as advice on living in harmony with bears. Through good science made accessible with stories, Stonorov offers readers an engaging and breath-taking journey into the world of a legendary but often misunderstood species.

Derek Stonorov is a retired wildlife biologist and guide working out of Homer, Alaska. He has educated hundreds of students, photographers, filmmakers, scientists, and tourists about brown bears. Stonorov has written articles for Natural History magazine and produced booklets for Alaska Fish and Game, the Nature Conservancy, Alaska Audubon, the National Park Service, and others. He has also written and directed several films, including the award-winning Way of the Bear.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Beginnings
1. We Thought the World Would Never Run Out of Wild Animals
2. Causation and Function
3. Meeting Molly
4. My Best Choice
5. Egegik and Akutaq
Part 2. Lake Becharof
6. First Bear
7. A Dance of Displeasure
8. Now I Understand—Social Bears
9. Becharof Days
10. How Do You Know That?
Part 3. McNeil River
11. Big Rock Candy Mountain
12. Sex, Drugs, and Confrontation
13. Signals and Rituals
14. The Crux of the Biscuit—Extraordinary Bears
15. Higher Education
16. Hell for Stout
Part 4. Individuals and Opportunists
17. Return to McNeil
18. Being Alpha
19. Where the Bears Are
20. Ages and Stages
21. Bonds and Maturity
22. Freude der Bären
Part 5. Watch the Bear
23. Alaska Bear Quest
24. Ephraim River
25. Bear Watching
26. Snow Bear
27. Sterling
28. Safety in Bear Country

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	28 photographs, 1 map
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4962-3343-3 / 1496233433
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3343-1 / 9781496233431
Zustand	Neuware