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Viral Sequences Recovered From Puma Tooth DNA Reconstruct Statewide Viral Phylogenies
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Monitoring pathogens in wildlife populations is imperative for effective management, and for identifying locations for pathogen spillover among wildlife, domestic species and humans.
Roderick B. Gagne +9 more
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Tolerance for cougars diminished by high perception of risk
Ecology and Society, 2016 In North America, both human and cougar populations are expanding and increasingly sharing the same space, including modified landscapes viewed by people as their "backyard." Low tolerance for cougars in modified landscapes has been identified as a key ...
Aliah Adams Knopff +2 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2021 Noise is the non-target search results that people encounter when searching for a particular topic of interest; it is also the cloud of distracting data that can obscure or deflect conservation communication. Online noise associated with large carnivores
Emma Wood +6 more
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California Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2020 There is a paucity of published hematological data for wild, free-ranging mountain lions (Puma concolor). We collected such information from mountain lions occurring at mid-elevations to increase available baseline information. We captured and sampled
Vernon C. Bleich +3 more
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Effects of remedial sport hunting on cougar complaints and livestock depredations.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Remedial sport hunting of predators is often used to reduce predator populations and associated complaints and livestock depredations. We assessed the effects of remedial sport hunting on reducing cougar complaints and livestock depredations in ...
Kaylie A Peebles +3 more
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Research Note. Trichinella spiralis parasitizing Puma concolor: first record in wildlife in Chile
Helminthologia, 2015 The genus Trichinella is widespread in all continents but Antarctica. The only way to identify the species/genotypes is through molecular analyses. In Chile, only one study has reported Trichinella larvae in a cougar, but the species of Trichinella was ...
Landaeta-Aqueveque C. +7 more
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Seasonal foraging ecology of non-migratory cougars in a system with migrating prey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 We tested for seasonal differences in cougar (Puma concolor) foraging behaviors in the Southern Yellowstone Ecosystem, a multi-prey system in which ungulate prey migrate, and cougars do not.
L Mark Elbroch +4 more
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Factors Governing Risk of Cougar Attacks on Humans
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Since the 1980s wildlife managers in the United States and Canada have expressed increasing concern about the physical threat posed by cougars (Puma concolor) to humans.
David Mattson +2 more
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From Meow to ROAR: Expanding Open Access Repository Services at the University of Houston Libraries
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2019 INTRODUCTION The rapidly changing scholarly communication ecosystem is placing a growing premium on research data and scholarship that is openly available.
Anne Washington +5 more
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ACM SIGMOD Record, 2003 We present an update on the status of the Cougar Sensor Database Project, in which we are investigating a database approach to sensor networks: Clients "program" the sensors through queries in a high-level declarative language (such as a variant of SQL).
Alan J. Demers +4 more
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