“So, if there’s a carcass that’s available, they just take the opportunity to eat it.” He and his coauthors found that in polar bears and brown bears, most instances of cannibalism are infanticide, ...

Coastal brown bears in Alaska and British Columbia ... and nuts. When they do eat meat, it’s often scavenged from a different predator’s kill site, a hunter-harvested carcass, or a prey animal that’s ...