ֱ News - Artctic /channels/news_feeds/all/term/Artctic/rss en Murres dive deep on fishing missions /channels/channels/news/murres-dive-deep-fishing-missions-299800 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Rappelling down a 650-foot cliff to catch seabirds on a remote island just below the Arctic Circle was scary enough.</p> <p>“The first time you look over and you rappel over, it’s certainly not for the faint of heart,” said <strong>Kyle Elliott</strong>, a research chair in Arctic ecology at ֱ in Canada.</p> <p>But for Elliott and fellow researcher <strong>Emile Brisson Curadeau</strong>, it was the hungry polar bears (<em>Ursus maritimus</em>) — usually one a day walking near their cabin — that raised real concerns, and devoured their research subjects.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/murre-diving_brisson_curadeau.jpg?itok=N3wMn2BR" width="160" height="92" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2019</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:50:32 +0000 webfull 152101 at /channels