List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Foreword: The
Bear: A Cultural and Natural Heritage - Barrie K. Gilbert Introduction:
What is a Bear? - Owen T. Nevin, Ian Convery, Peter Davis, John Kitchin and
Melanie Clapham BEAR-PEOPLE INTERACTIONS The Spirit Bear - Philip Charles
Out of the Wild Wood and into our Beds: The Evolutionary History of Teddy
Bears and the Natural Selection of Deadly Cuteness - Mike Jeffries Bears
within the Human Landscape: Cultural and Demographic Factors Influencing
the Use of Bear Parts in Cambodia and Laos - Elizabeth O Davis and Jenny
Anne Glikman Bears in Gay Culture: Histories, Discourses and
Anthropomorphism - Gareth Longstaff Bears, Wildmen, Yeti and Sasquatch -
Jeff Meldrum Bears in Children's Literature - Tracy Hayes, Heather Prince
and Ian Convery Knowing Individual Bears - Owen T. Nevin, Ian Convery and
John Kitchin BEARS IN THE PUBLIC GAZE Bears Behind Bars: Captive Bears
Throughout History - Koen Cuyten and Ian Convery The Bear in the Museum -
Peter Davis Museum Polar Bears and Climate Change - Henry McGhie On the
Oblique Imperative: What Revealing Conceals and Concealing may Reveal -
Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir Visitations: The Social and
Cultural History of Polar Bear Narratives in Iceland and the North Atlantic
- Kristinn Schram and Jón Jónsson BEAR BIOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION
Chemical Signalling in Brown Bears - Melanie Clapham, Owen T. Nevin and Ian
Convery Reducing Uncertainty in Bear Management - Sarah Elmeligi, Owen T.
Nevin and Ian Convery Living with Bears in Europe - Miha Krofel Citizen
Science and Bears - Sarah Elmeligi, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery
Understanding Local Folklore and Attitudes in Apennine Brown Bear
Conservation - Jenny Anne Glikman and Beatrice Frank Reducing Human Impacts
on Andean Bears in NW Peru Through Community-based Conservation - Samantha
A Young, Russell C Van Horn and Jenny Anne Glikman Afterword: 'It's Me
Bear': Reflections on a Unique Career Working with Bears - Lynn Rogers
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