Socially learned foraging behaviour in wild black bears, Ursus americanus

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Evolutionary and ecological traps for brown bears Ursus arctos in human‐modified landscapes (2018, background): “…to increase their use of developed areas where feeding takes place according to physiological demands for food (e.g. hyperphagia and natural food shortage years; Baruch- Mordo et al. 2014, Johnson et al. 2015); and 3) induce females to train their cubs to seek artificial foods (Mazur & Seher 2008).”
Does Aversive Conditioning Reduce Human–Black Bear Conflict? (2010, background): “I use the term wild following prior usage (Mazur and Seher 2008) to designate bears that are not foodconditioned.”
The cognition of ‘nuisance’ species (2019, background): “For example, foraging on anthropogenic sources of food may be a socially learned phenomenon in species such as black bears, Ursus americanus (Hopkins, 2013; Mazur & Seher, 2008; but see Breck et al., 2008) and jackdaws, Corvus monedula (Greggor, McIvor, Clayton, & Thornton, 2016).”