Oleg Zabluda's blog
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
 
"""Red squirrels collect and hoard the [whitebark pine] seeds in caches, which grizzlies rob and gobble.
"""Red squirrels collect and hoard the [whitebark pine] seeds in caches, which grizzlies rob and gobble. In good seed-production years—sometimes as often as every other year—some of Yellowstone’s grizzlies might derive as much as 90 percent of their autumn protein intake from seed middens."""

And in even years, Grizzlies derive 90% of their autumn protein intake from tourists.

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