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Bears Captured For Research Prone To Injuries And Death

Alberta- In a review of different animals that are captured for the purposes of research, a Canadian Researcher has discovered that animals such as Bears that are caught to be studied or for research purposes are often injured, or die as a result of their capture.

After a number of different deaths began to occur with animals that were captured to be studied and researched, a wildlife researcher began to examine the records for Canada and the province of Alberta.

Working with the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, Wildlife researcher Marc Cattet examined the records from 127 different Grizzly bears captured in Alberta between the years 1999 and 2005.

The results were a shock, and rather alarming.

The results showed that a fairly large number of these animals were highly stressed by their capture, and that they showed the damage from this stress for long periods of time following their capture, in some cases even after they were released back into the wild.

Among the 127 bears that Cattet examined the record of, nearly 2/3 of these bears were injured or suffered muscle tears or muscular damage from their actual capture.

After capture, bears also appear to not be able to accumulate body mass needed to hibernate successfully, or to grow and mature if the bear was a young bear.