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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"mountain lions"”.
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Anthropogenic Factors Affecting Mountain Lions in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Historically, mountain lions (Puma concolor) in North America were persecuted, at least since European colonization. The distribution of mountain lions declined for decades until in the mid-1900s, when they persisted only in the mountains of western North America and wetlands of the Florida …
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Determining Impacts of Mountain Lions on Bighorn Sheep and Other Prey Sources in the Black Hills
<p>From 2009 to 2013, we assessed cougar (Puma concolor) feeding habits and bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) population dynamics in the Black Hills, South Dakota. We used Global Positioning System (GPS) telemetry to locate 1,506 cougar feeding events and found deer (Odocoileus spp.; 83%), primarily …
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Ecology of Mountain Lions (Puma concolor) in the North Dakota Badlands: Population Dynamics and Prey Use
Mountain lions (Puma concolor) have recently recolonized the North Dakota Badlands nearly a century after their extirpation; due to the relatively recent reappearance of mountain lions in the region, most population metrics are unknown. From 2011‒2013, we fitted 14 mountain lions with GPS collars …
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Examination of Scavenging Associated with Wolves
… the Northwest, large carnivores such as bears, mountain lions, and canids are abundant. These types of carnivores can not only inflict incredible trauma to a skeleton, they can also disperse the remains over very large areas, making it difficult for forensic teams to recover all of the skeletal …
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Examination of Scavenging Associated with Wolves
… the Northwest, large carnivores such as bears, mountain lions, and canids are abundant. These types of carnivores can not only inflict incredible trauma to a skeleton, they can also disperse the remains over very large areas, making it difficult for forensic teams to recover all of the skeletal …
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Carnivore Modification in North America: Perspectives on Neotaphonomy, Carnivore Use of Carrion, and Great Plains Bison Bonbeds
… parts. Captive North American wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, grizzly bears, and black bears were fed defleshed hind limbs of cattle (Bos taurus) and lamb (Ovis aries). Wolves displayed behaviors that include use of incisors for pulling soft tissue, and use of cheek teeth for gnawing …
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Conservation of leopards in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan
… reviewed the management of carnivores including mountain lions, wolves, and grizzly bears to learn from management successes and failures in North America. Based on my review, I make the following recommendations to improve leopard management in and near Ayubia. First, to minimize human-leopard …
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Conservation of leopards in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan
… reviewed the management of carnivores including mountain lions, wolves, and grizzly bears to learn from management successes and failures in North America. Based on my review, I make the following recommendations to improve leopard management in and near Ayubia. First, to minimize human-leopard …
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Solid Grounding / Framing Movement: extending community opportunity in an urban park. Raw vs refined
… geological landmarks in Cape Town, namely Table Mountain, Lions Head, Signal hill and the ocean. The focal point and what drew me to this site was the solidity of exposed rock seen in the remnants of the 18th century defence system in the form of a redoubt. With old trees hinting at the existence …
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Technology in ecology: determining the location, behaviour, and energy expenditure of free-ranging carnivores
… catus), and quantify how large wild predators, mountain lions (Puma concolor), minimise energetic costs in increasingly isolated, challenging terrains.<br/><br/>I found that the accuracy of animal routes derived from GPS decrease with longer intervals between fixes and with faster animal speeds, …
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Population Demographics of Cougars in the Black Hills: Survival, Dispersal, Morphometry, Genetic Structure, and Associated Interactions with Density Dependence
… semi-isolated from other populations in a mountainous region surrounded by atypical cougar habitat, 3) assess the genetic structure of a semi-isolated cougar population, 4) document morphological attributes of a newly recolonized cougar population, and 5) assess population status and …