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Collar cams offer a bear's eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska's desolate North Slope
- Researchers fitted grizzly bears with collar cameras on Alaska's North Slope to capture their daily life.
- Twelve bears are outfitted with cameras as part of a two-year project to monitor their food sources and behavior.
- Videos show bears feeding on carcasses, musk ox, caribou calves, and later berries as the season progresses.
- Researchers note the bears hibernate about eight months each year to prepare for winter.
- The study tracks how oil-field development may influence denning areas and winter roads.
- The cameras can record up to 17 hours of video per bear, with frequent clips in spring and summer.
- The North Slope population consists of about 11,000 people living in a vast, remote area.
- Biologists replaced collars in August and downloaded data in September for ongoing monitoring.
- The project will add more collars, expanding the dataset for better understanding of bear ecology.
- The footage offers a rare perspective of life on a desolate Arctic tundra.
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