Table 3 Percentage of human-caused mortality, infectious diseases and natural traumatic injuries found in free-ranging Cantabrian brown bears necropsied between 1998 and 2023.
Period | Bears | Mortality causes of Cantabrian brown bears (non-mutually exclusive) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Human-caused % | Infectious disease % | Traumatic injury % | |||||
1998–2023 | Cubs | 12 | 25 | 33.33 | 50 | ||
Adults | 26 | 42.31 | 42.31 | 53.85 | |||
Total | 38 | 36.84 | 39.47 | 52.63 | |||