Bears were mysteriously missing toes. These scientists cracked the case.
Clayton Lamb didn't think much of the missing toe at first. The Canadian biologist was moving a snoozing bear with conservation officers in Fernie, a ski resort town tucked in the mountains of British Columbia. A tourist from Australia stood on a deck nearby, snapping photos of the hulking grizzly./ The team had tranquilized the animal to haul it away from a manicured lawn when Lamb saw it: A piece of its paw was gone. Grizzlies lead rough lives, brawling and biting one another. "So the missing toe of one bear wasn't necessarily a red flag ...
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