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The Stuffed Plush Bear and The Translocation of Brown Bears   by Angeline Hope

There’s nothing better than being able to snuggle up to your favorite stuffed plush bear, especially when you’re a kid. With some children having a stuffed plush bear they can never be parted from, no matter how beat up it might get over the years, one thing remains true: it’s the best friend and comforter any child could hope to have.

Brown bears living in France, can only be found in one place: the Pyrénées mountains. It’s here where two sub-populations of the species make their home; one is a central population that is growing and the other is an endemic western one created from a translocation. In field data from 1993 to 2005, that was collected and analyzed, researchers found that the bears in the western sub-population were not doing as well reproductively as the bears living in the central sub-population.

Guillaume Chapron from the Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden and various colleagues say: