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Aknowledgements
Danish Cooperation for Environment in the Arctic and The Commission for
Scientific Research in Greenland are acknowleged for financial support,
Jonas Brønlund who gathered the samples through local hunters, Hanne
Tuborg Sandell and Birger Sandell who helped with local contacts to hunters
and finally Jeppe Møhl, Mogens Andersen, Abdi Hedayat and Hans Bogø at
the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen who provided collection skulls for
analysis and facilities for maceration and preparation of newly acquired
skulls. Steen Andersen (Foxtrot) made the instruction video for the polar
bear hunters, for which Lars Åby also supplied footage. The laboratory
technicians at National Water Research Institute and Great Lakes Institute
for Environmental Research is acknowledged for conducting the chemical
analysis. The laboratory technicians at the Laboratory of Pathology are acknowledged
for conducting the histology slides.
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