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Brown bears often scratch their backs connected trees, leaving down chemic signals to different bears. Now, it seems the enactment besides helps support them from ticks
Life 27 January 2023By Jake Buehler
An anti-tick scratch? Carpathian Brown Bear Project
Bears that rear up to scratch their backs against a histrion trunk smear themselves with pungent resin, perchance keeping bloodsucking parasites astatine bay.
Brown bears (Ursus arctos) regularly scrape their necks, chests and backs against trees. The behaviour is often thought of arsenic chemic connection with different bears, done the animals depositing their ain odours oregon picking up a coating of aromatic resin. Bears volition besides gravitate towards smellier options for tree-rubbing, specified arsenic creosote-treated powerfulness poles.
But since galore odoriferous works oils and different substances person anti-fungal …
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