by
Stephen F. Stringham, PhD
 
With photographs by
Kent Fredriksson
 
and Illustrations by
Gerald Trombley
BOOK CONTENTS Acknowledgments Prologue – The Phantom Grizzly Preface ♦ Other sources of bear safety advice ♦ Book overview Warning & Disclaimer Chapter 1. Militant vs. Diplomatic Approaches to Safety ♦ Conventional wisdom, bearanoia, and the Militant Strategy ♦ Frontiers of bear-human coexistence ♦ Assessing risk ♦ Diplomacy and the Negotiation Strategy ♦ Living in harmony with other wildlife ♦ Appendices BASIC DIPLOMACY 2. Minimizing Viewer Impacts on Bears ♦ Common impacts ♦ Minimizing disturbance ♦ Neutralizing ursine interest in people 3. Aggression, Socialization & Familiarization Among Bears ♦ Enhancing respect by fellow bears ♦ Enhancing trust by fellow bears ♦ Species differences in socialization ♦ Familiarization with other animals ♦ Familiarization with people ♦ Neutralizing ursine interest in people ♦ Misconceptions o Habituation o Familiarization o Wildness o Naturalness 4. Ursine Trust for People ♦ Eroding trust - alienation ♦ Enhancing trust o Repeated encounters with benign people o Appeasement o Bears encountering people at food concentrations. 5. Ursine Respect for People ♦ Defensive discipline o Don’t let bears crowd you ♦ Offensive discipline: bullying bears ♦ Reinforcing threats APPROACHING BEARS 6. No Crowding, No Trespassing ♦ Distance thresholds ♦ Distances at which each response is triggered is a matter of probability, and depends on several factors ♦ Look, but don’t touch or feed ♦ Defense of space vs. turf 7. Approaching Bears ♦ Low risk situations ♦ High risk situations BEING APPROACHED BY A BEAR 8. Slow Approaches by a Bear ♦ Who approaches whom? ♦ Waiting for a bear to pass you ♦ If a bear chooses to approach you 9. Rapid Approaches by a Bear ♦ Bears playing ♦ Bears fleeing bears ♦ Bears seeking prey ♦ Bears chasing prey ♦ Bears fleeing people or machines SOCIAL BONDS AND WHISPERING 10. Intensifying Mutual Trust ♦ Domestic species ♦ Captive wildlife ♦ Wild-reared orphaned cubs ♦ Fully-wild bears 11. Intensifying Mutual Respect ♦ Domestic animals ♦ Captive-reared orphans ♦ Wild-reared orphans ♦ Fully-wild bears o Mutual respect o Play o Refereeing ♦ Risks of socializing Endnotes Recommended reading Index Book Ordering Info Author Bio http://web.mac.com/gobearviewing/iweb/Bear%20Viewing%20In%20Alaska/Home.htmlhttp://web.mac.com/gobearviewing/iweb/Beauty_Within_The_Beast/Menu.htmlhttp://web.mac.com/gobearviewing/iweb/Beauty%20Within%20The%20Beast/Contents.htmlhttp://web.mac.com/gobearviewing/iweb/Bear%20Safety%20Manual/Menu.htmlhttp://web.mac.com/gobearviewing/iweb/Bears%20Of%20North%20America/Menu.htmlshapeimage_1_link_1
White Ears and her 1st-year cub Whipple .
S. Stringham  (c) 2000.
 
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