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March 8, 2002
Toward a Stress-Free Approach to Capturing and Handling Wild Polar Bears
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX For the past 90 minutes, X03366 had been in a stable state of anesthesia--his body limp and relaxed, and his vitals normal and steady. At 19 years of age, X03366 was one of the older and larger polar bears camped out along the western Hudson Bay coast awaiting the formation of this year's sea ice, only 4 weeks away. For the research crew flying south along the coastline ...