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  <dc:contributor>R. Smith</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>V. Barnes Jr.</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1993</dc:date>
  <dc:description>We report three cases where female Brown Bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi) with new (1 winter season. The adoptions occurred in a sampling of 104 litters produced by 89 different females on Kodiak Island, Alaska during 1982-1990. A maximum of six cubs were reared from litters that probably would have produced 3-4 subadults if the adoptions had not taken place.</dc:description>
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  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Cub adoption by brown bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi) on Kodiak Island, Alaska</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>