Fig. 3
From: Drivers of polar bear behavior and the possible effects of prey availability on foraging strategy
Predicted state characteristics. a Step length distribution for each state; b turning angle distribution for each state; polar bear orientation relative to c tidal currents and d wind; and example from one bear bout contrasting the e original track and f wind-forcing-corrected track. D and ARS represent drift and area-restricted search, respectively, and O represent olfactory search (left, \(O^{(L)}\), or right, \(O^{(R)}\), relative to wind). Tracks in e and f are colored by the decoded states and show the estimated wind (gray) and tidal current (blue) velocities. All data (except in panel e) were based on the wind-forcing-corrected tracks and the top model fitted to seven years of polar bear telemetry data from Western Hudson Bay, Canada