Brown bears found to leave scent signals by twisting feet into the ground

Friday, April 28, 2017 - 07:32 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from Poland, Spain and Austria has discovered that brown bears living in Poland have glands in their paws that produce chemicals that the bears use to communicate with other bears. In their paper published in Scientific Reports, the team describes their study of multiple bears in the wild and what they observed.

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