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Diurnal Human Activity and Introduced Species Affect Occurrence of Carnivores in a Human-Dominated Landscape. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Diurnal human activity and domestic dogs in agro-forestry mosaics should theoretically modify the diurnal habitat use patterns of native carnivores, with these effects being scale-dependent.
Dario Moreira-Arce, Pablo M Vergara, Stan Boutin   +2 more
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Rabies Virus Variants Detected from Cougar (Puma concolor) in Mexico 2000–2021

Pathogens, 2022
In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) recognized Mexico as a country free of human rabies transmitted by dogs.
Fabiola Garcés-Ayala, Álvaro Aguilar-Setién, Cenia Almazán-Marín, Claudia Cuautle-Zavala, Susana Chávez-López, David Martínez-Solís, Mauricio Gómez-Sierra, Albert Sandoval-Borja, Beatriz Escamilla-Ríos, Irma López-Martínez, Nidia Aréchiga-Ceballos   +10 more
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Native prey, not landscape change or novel prey, drive cougar (Puma concolor) distribution at a boreal forest range edge

Ecology and Evolution
Many large carnivores, despite widespread habitat alteration, are rebounding in parts of their former ranges after decades of persecution and exploitation.
Millicent V. Gaston, Andrew F. Barnas, Rebecca M. Smith, Sean Murray, Jason T. Fisher   +4 more
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Humans as Prey: Coping with Large Carnivore Attacks using a Predator-Prey Interaction Perspective

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
The number of attacks on humans by large carnivores in North America is increasing. A better understanding the factors triggering such attacks is critical to mitigating the risk of future encounters in landscape where humans and large carnivore co-exist.
Vincenzo Penteriani, Giulia Bombieri, José María Fedriani, José Vicente López-Bao, Pedro José Garrote, Luca Francesco Russo, María del Mar Delgado   +6 more
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Bed site selection by a subordinate predator: an example with the cougar (Puma concolor) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
As technology has improved, our ability to study cryptic animal behavior has increased. Bed site selection is one such example. Among prey species, bed site selection provides thermoregulatory benefits and mitigates predation risk, and may directly ...
Anna Kusler, L. Mark Elbroch, Howard Quigley, Melissa Grigione   +3 more
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Habitat suitability and protected area coverage for an expanding cougar Puma concolor population in Canada

Ecology and Evolution
Successful conservation of expanding large carnivore populations and management of human–wildlife conflict to promote coexistence requires sufficient spatiotemporal knowledge to inform appropriate action.
Jennifer A. Christoff, Eleanor S. Devenish‐Nelson   +1 more
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Parasitic infection increases risk-taking in a social, intermediate host carnivore

Communications Biology, 2022
Wolf behavioural, spatial, and serological data over 26 years show that wolf territory overlap with areas of high cougar density is a significant predictor of T. gondii infection.
Connor J. Meyer, Kira A. Cassidy, Erin E. Stahler, Ellen E. Brandell, Colby B. Anton, Daniel R. Stahler, Douglas W. Smith   +6 more
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Using DNA to evaluate field identification of cougar sex by agency staff and hunters using trained dogs

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2015
Cougar (Puma concolor) hunting has been classified typically as either selective‐hunting with the aid of dogs or nonselective‐hunting without dogs; this is based on the assumption that hunters using dogs to tree cougars can better identify sex of cougars
Richard A. Beausoleil, Kenneth I. Warheit   +1 more
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Managing Cougars in North America: Revisions Underway

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2020
In 2011, the Jack H. Berryman Institute, in cooperation with the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Cougar Working Group, published “Managing Cougars of North America” (available through www.berrymaninstitute.org or Amazon.com). Over 5,000
Jonathan A. Jenks
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Risk and residency influences on public support for florida panther recovery

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2012
Human expansion into core habitat of the Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi) increasingly threatens this endangered carnivore. To understand the social dimensions of the influence of humans' proximity to risk from panthers on public support for panther
Cynthia Langin, Susan K. Jacobson
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