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Beauty Within the Beast

Kinship With Bears

in the Alaska Wilderness

(c) 2002 Stephen Stringham

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BEAUTY WITHIN
THE BEAST

Kinship with Bears
in the Alaska Wilderness

© 2002
Stephen Stringham, Ph.D.

Bear Communication & Coexistence
Research Program
“Communication is the Key to Coexistence)
Better Armed with Knowledge Than with Guns”

bearcomunication@hotmail.com

For

Jackie, Alatanna, my parents, my sisters and their families.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Jane Goodall, Valerius Geist, and Robert Leslie
who led the way.

Lousia Willcox, David Mattson, Lee Metzgar,
Tom Smith, Sue Morse, Lynn Rogers, John Rogers, Roger Bon,
and other colleagues whose friendship and insights about nature have sustained me.

John & Frank Craighead and their families;
Chuck Jonkel, Fred Dean, Gordon Burghardt,
Neil Greenberg, John Philpot,
and my many other mentors in Western Science

Grandma Teetzinella, QuisQuiNee
and other mentors in Indigenous Science

and
especially Jeanne Toomey and her son Pete
whose love of bears played such a critical role in the publication of this book.

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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
Prologue
Preface

Part I: BONDING

1. A Family of Bears
2. Marauder
3. Confrontation
4. Adoption
5. Temper, Trust and Respect ..
6. Affection and Play
7. Treats, Toys, and Tools

Part II: PREPARING FOR INDEPENDENCE

8. Exploration and Socialization
9. Foraging
10. Instinct, Learning and Cultural knowledge
11. Fishing
12. Hunting
13. Call of The Wild

Epilogue: Benefits and Hazards of
Acclimating Bears to People

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