Table 1.

Summary of femoral cross-sectional properties linearly regressed against age for skeletally immature male and female bears

Property	P-value	r-value
Male
Ps.Ar	0.018	0.643
Ct.Ar	0.015	0.654
Es.Ar	0.134	0.438
Es.Ar/PsAr	0.781	0.090
Ct.Th	0.022	0.625
SM	0.012	0.669
Imax	0.026	0.614
IML	0.013	0.663
IAP	0.027	0.611
IAM-LP	0.016	0.650
IAL-MP	0.018	0.643
Female
Ps.Ar	0.019	0.837
Ct.Ar	0.010	0.876
Es.Ar	0.298	0.461
Es.Ar/PsAr	0.890	−0.065
Ct.Th	0.090	0.686
SM	0.008	0.884
Imax	0.009	0.877
IML	0.013	0.859
IAP	0.009	0.883
IAM-LP	0.005	0.903
IAL-MP	0.010	0.873

Most properties significantly increased with age in both male and female bears. See text for explanations of abbreviations.