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On The Behavioral Responses Of Free Uinta Ground Squirrels To Trapping, David F. Balph
On The Behavioral Responses Of Free Uinta Ground Squirrels To Trapping, David F. Balph
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Biologists often trap animals to obtain information on them. If trapping is selective toward some animals, the information may be inaccurate. Most mammalogists know or suspect that their trapping techniques (reviewed by Hayne, 1949; and Stickel, 1954) contain sources of bias. Since trapping remains the only feasible way to obtain information on many animals, researchers have tried to discover sources of sampling error and refine their techniques. They have found that one major source of difficulty may lie in the behavior of animals. Individual animals seem to respond differently to trapping, both initially and through learning (Geis, 1955; Crowcroft and …