We used compositional data analysis to analyze the proportions of macronutrients in bear diets. Compositional data analysis is a field of statistics that was developed to address concerns regarding using conventional statistics to analyze compositional data (Aitchison, 1982) and has been used across a variety of fields, including geosciences (Buccianti, Nisi, Martín‐Ferández, & Palarea‐Albaladejo, 2014), public health (Chastin, Palarea‐Albaladejo, Dontje, & Skelton, 2015), and meat science (Ros‐Freixedes & Estany, 2013). A full review of compositional data analysis is beyond the scope of this study; hence, we refer readers to the papers cited herein.