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Aspects Of Reproduction And Population Dynamics Of Bobcats In Wyoming, Douglas M. Crowe
Aspects Of Reproduction And Population Dynamics Of Bobcats In Wyoming, Douglas M. Crowe
Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings
Distribution of the bobcat includes the 48 contiguous United States and limited occupance of southern Canada and northern Mexico. There are 11 subspecies, the one in Wyoming being Lynx rufus pallescens. Bobcats inhabit an amazing variety of habitat types, from northern boreal forests, southern swamp, and cane regions to the below sea level desert of Death Valley, California. Throughout this vast area, they utilize a wide variety of prey species. One study in Wyoming revealed at least 18 different species in the stomachs of bobcats; the cottontail rabbit being predominant. A similar study in New England revealed 20 different …
A Matter Of Understanding: An Environmental Protection Agency Film On Coyotes, F. Robert Henderson
A Matter Of Understanding: An Environmental Protection Agency Film On Coyotes, F. Robert Henderson
Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings
This movie gives facts concerning the coyote. A better understanding of other living things will determine how responsibly we make adjustments in the environment and govern the earth we share with the coyote and other creatures.
Productivity, Mortality, And Population Trends Of Wolves In Northeastern Minnesota, L. David Mech
Productivity, Mortality, And Population Trends Of Wolves In Northeastern Minnesota, L. David Mech
USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Population parameters, mortality causes, and mechanisms of a population decline were studied in wolves (Canis lupus lycaon) from 1968 to 1976 in the Superior National Forest. The main method was aerial radio-tracking of 129 wolves and their packmates. Due to a decline in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the wolf population decreased during most of the study. Average annual productivity varied from 1.5 to 3.3 pups per litter, and annual mortality rates from 7 to 65 percent. Malnutrition and intraspecific strife accounted equally for 58 percent of the mortality; human causes accounted for the remainder. As wolf …
Wolf-Pack Buffer Zones As Prey Reservoirs, L. David Mech
Wolf-Pack Buffer Zones As Prey Reservoirs, L. David Mech
USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Abstract. In a declining herd, surviving deer inhabited overlapping edges of wolf- pack territories. There, wolves hunted little until desperate, in order to avoid fatal encounters with neighbors. Such encounters reduce wolf numbers and predation pressure and apparently allow surviving deer along territory edges to repopulate the area through dispersal of their prime, less vulnerable offspring into territory cores.
Comparison Of Coyote And Coyote × Dog Hybrid Food Habits In Southeastern Nebraska, Brian R. Mahan
Comparison Of Coyote And Coyote × Dog Hybrid Food Habits In Southeastern Nebraska, Brian R. Mahan
University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers
The recent taxonomic study by Mahan et al. (1978) documented the occurrence of coyote (Canis latrans) x dog (c. familiaris) hybrids in Nebraska. This study, and those by Freeman (1976) in Oklahoma and Gipson et al. (1974) in Arkansas show coyote x dog hybrids, though not abundant, to be numerous in some areas. The purpose of the present study was to compare the stomach contents of coyote x dog hybrids collected by Mahan et al. (1978) from southeastern Nebraska with those of contemporary coyotes.
Stomachs of 12 coyote x dog hybrids and 16 coyotes collected November 1975 …