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Alberta game ranchers are lobbying governments in the province in a renewed attempt to legalize hunt farms.

Alberta game ranchers are lobbying governments in the province in a renewed attempt to legalize hunt farms. They say it's an industry that could bring

Researchers studied the genomes of 213 individual brown bears found in Alberta They looked for hairs on trees, poles and posts and linked them to an individual This allowed them to track where a bear 'rubs' and how often they use a rub site The team found a link between the number of rubs and number of partners The results of that work suggest that 'rubbing' against a tree may have a fitness component, with those doing it more becoming more 'attractive' 

 E-Mail Brown bears that are more inclined to grate and rub against trees have more offspring and more mates, according to a University of Alberta study. The results suggest there might be a fitness component to the poorly understood behaviour. "As far as we know, all bears do this dance, rubbing their back up against the trees, stomping the feet and leaving behind odours of who they are, what they are, what position they're in, and possibly whether they are related," said Mark Boyce, an ecologist in the Department of Biological Sciences. "What we were able to show is that both males and fem...

Date Time Grazing livestock could reduce greenhouse gases in atmosphere, study shows An innovative approach to livestock grazing could help eliminate climate change-causing greenhouse gases, according to a new study by University of Alberta biologists.  The research shows that a strategy called adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing extracts methane gas from the atmosphere, locking it inside the soil through microbial activity. Methane gas has a climate warming effect that is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time frame.  “Grasslands are the most endangered ecosystem ...