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Table 1 The number and percentage of polar bear scats (n = 642) containing ‘vegetation’, ‘animal’, ‘land-based’ food items

From: Dietary composition and spatial patterns of polar bear foraging on land in western Hudson Bay

  

Scats containing food item

  

#

%

Food type (≥ 1)

  
 

Vegetation

545

84.9

 

Animal

294

45.8

 

Land-based food

605

94.2

 

Land-based animal

227

35.4

Food combinations

  
 

Animal + Vegetation

220

34.3

 

> 1 Animal

60

9.3

 

> 1 Land-based animal

42

6.5

  1. ‘Vegetation’ includes grasses, marine algae, mosses, mushrooms and berries; ‘Animal’ includes identified and unidentified birds, mammals and eggs; ‘Land-based food’ includes any food item except seal or polar bear (which could have been consumed on the ice); ‘Land-based animal’ includes caribou, birds, eggs and rodents.
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BMC Ecology

ISSN: 1472-6785

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