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Smiling Bears A Zookeeper Explores the Behaviour and Emotional Life of Bears

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ISBN-10: 1553653874

ISBN-13: 9781553653875

Edition: 2009

Authors: Else Poulsen, Stephen Herrero

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd.
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Else Poulsenholds a B.SC. degree in biological sciences. She has worked at the Calgary and Detroit zoos and is known internationally in the zoo and animal welfare community for her work with captive bear husbandry and rehabilitation. She has taught at conferences and workshops around the world and won the Zookeeper Excellence Award for bear research from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association in 2000. She currently lives in southern Ontario and works with zoos and other animal welfare organizations as an animal behavior specialist. Stephen Herrerois a Professor of Environmental Science and Biology at the University of Calgary. He is recognized throughout the world as a leading authority…    

<p class="biography" <b Stephen Herrero</b is a Canadian doctor of animal behaviour and ecology, and was a professor at University of Calgary. He is the author of <i Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance</i .</p

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Who Are You and What Can I Do for You?
Smiling Bears: Bears Do Things for Bear Reasons
Three Rocky Mountain Grizzlies: From the Wild to Captivity
Sex and the Single Grizzly: Skoki Moves In
A Pacing Polar Bear: Snowball's Inner Demon
Polar Bear on Prozac: Snowball Gets Her Life Back
Conversations with a Polar Bear: Misty Asks for Stuff
Being a Spectacled Bear: Melanka and Nicholas
Raising Miggy-Raising Me: Learning Lessons from a Cub
Rehabilitating Barle: From Circus Bear to Polar Bear
Barle, Triton, and Talini: Rehabilitation Comes Full Circle
Epilogue: What Bears Need-You and Me
Notes
Appendix
Index