Jack Hopkins, University of California - Santa Cruz (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Jack Hopkins, University of California - Santa Cruz

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Researcher Jack Hopkins used barbed-wire snares to collect hair samples from bears in Yosemite National Park. Analysis of isotope ratios in hair samples showed how much of the bears' diets came from human food.

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Photo courtesy of Jack Hopkins

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