/macdonald/taxonomy/term/2565/all en /macdonald/channels/news/murres-dive-deep-fishing-missions-299800 <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 ���ϲ����� University 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> Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:50:32 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 54457 at /macdonald