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Differential Behavior Of Coyotes With Regard To Home Range Limits, Charles E. Harris
Differential Behavior Of Coyotes With Regard To Home Range Limits, Charles E. Harris
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study was conducted to examine coyote behavioral responses to novel stimuli in familiar and unfamiliar environments and the implications of this behavior with regard to specific coyote management and research techniques. A series of pen studies with captive coyotes was undertaken at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Predator Ecology and Behavior Project research site, Logan, Utah, to observe the range and type of behaviors coyotes showed towards small novel objects and standard scent stations in familiar and unfamiliar 1-ha enclosures. The initial response to these novel stimuli in familiar environments was one of neophobia and caution, whereas in …