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Supplementary feeding is a common, but controversial, tool in wildlife management, because it can benefit both humansand wildlife (e.g., increased wildlife densities), but has certain downsides (e.g., increased disease transmission). For speciesthat are often involved in human-wildlife conflicts, tw ...

Hibernating brown bears, due to a drastic reduction in metabolic rate, show only moderate muscle wasting. Here, we evaluate if ATPase activity of resting skeletal muscle myosin can contribute to this energy sparing. By analyzing single muscle fibers taken from the samebears,eitherduring hibernationo ...