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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Kill Sites"”.
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Predator species identification from saliva at kill sites with limited remains
Kill site investigations can provide valuable data about elusive predator species and predator-prey interactions for wildlife scientists and managers alike. However, the predator species must be definitively identified as the one responsible for the predation event. The traditional method of …
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Wolf Selection of Human-Modified Linear Features and Cover Types When Hunting and Killing White-Tailed Deer Fawns
… cover types influence where wolves hunt and kill fawns. During 2016–2019, I fit wolves with 20-min-fix-interval Global Positioning System (GPS) collars and searched clusters of GPS-locations to identify where wolves killed fawns. I identified 217 wolf-killed fawns from 12 wolves. I then …
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EVALUATING RISK OF LEAD EXPOSURE IN SCAVENGING SPECIES LINKED TO BIG-GAME HUNTING IN SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA
… and assessing scavenger community assemblages at kill sites (Chapter 3). In Chapter 2, I compared advanced imaging techniques (Biomedical Imaging and Therapy) with traditional medical x-rays to identify limitations in detecting and quantifying lead fragments in undesired animal tissues, such as …
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AMUR TIGER PREDATION AND ENERGETIC REQUIREMENTS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: NEW INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM COLLARS
… (GPS) collars on Amur tigers to study annual kill rates and energetic requirements in the Russian Far East. We captured and radio-collared 5 adult tigers from 2009 – 2011 in and around the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Zapovednik (Reserve) in the Russian Far East. We used GPS locations and 62 known …
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AMUR TIGER PREDATION AND ENERGETIC REQUIREMENTS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: NEW INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM COLLARS
… (GPS) collars on Amur tigers to study annual kill rates and energetic requirements in the Russian Far East. We captured and radio-collared 5 adult tigers from 2009 – 2011 in and around the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Zapovednik (Reserve) in the Russian Far East. We used GPS locations and 62 known …
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MICROBIAL GUARDIANS OF THE SAVANNAH: UNRAVELING THE GUT MICROBIOME FOR AFRICAN CARNIVORE CONSERVATION
… Additional opportunistic samples from carnivore kill sites were also analyzed. No significant differences in alpha or beta diversity were detected between preserved and dried samples, although bacterial beta diversity differed between preserved and opportunistic samples (PERMANOVA). Core …
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Wolf Predation: Where and How Wolves Kill Beavers, and Confronting the Biases in Scat-Based Diet Studies
… how wolves hunt beavers by identifying 22 kill sites using clusters of locations from GPS-collared wolves in Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota. Where wolves killed beavers varied seasonally with the majority (58%) of kills in the spring occurring below dams and on shorelines while the …
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Terminal transitions : an analysis of projectile points from the terminal middle period on the northern plains
… for better interpretations of archaeological sites on the Northern Plains. To aid in this clarification, twelve projectile point assemblages from nine previously excavated sites on the Saskatchewan and Alberta Plains were studied. These assemblages were subjected to geometric morphometric and …
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Diagnosing Bone Fracture to Assess Early Hominin Behaviour, Meat-Eating, and Socioecology at FLK-Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
… the habitual transport of food from death and/or kill sites to secondary locations are explored by examining reasons why social carnivores transport food. Aspects of modern carnivore behaviour suggest general mammalian constraints that may have predicated food transport by early Homo. Early Homo …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… often lithic tools, found at prehistoric bison kills and processing sites allows archaeologists to draw inferences about the technology associated with the procurement of such vital animals. An investigation of bison jump, trap or pound lithic assemblage can provide the opportunity to infer the …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… often lithic tools, found at prehistoric bison kills and processing sites allows archaeologists to draw inferences about the technology associated with the procurement of such vital animals. An investigation of bison jump, trap or pound lithic assemblage can provide the opportunity to infer the …
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Trapping, Survival, and Probable Causes of Mortality of Chukar Partridge
… and year effects on survival of chukars at 5 sites in western Utah. We also evaluated the probable cause of death for chukars with transmitters attached by examining evidence at kill sites. We captured and fitted 128 chukars with two different sized radio transmitters (99 females, 21 males, 8 …
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Movement analysis for monitoring predation by large carnivores : lions in Kruger National Park
… This often leads to an over-estimation of large kills in the estimated diet. Alternative methods that are free of the constraints placed on continuous observations are needed to provide data of a similar quality to that obtained using these continuous observation bouts. I employed a cluster …