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Do GPS clusters really work? carnivore diet from scat analysis and GPS telemetry methods
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2011 Global Positioning System (GPS) data collected using radiocollars have allowed researchers to identify sites where predators have killed prey, but this method has yet to be compared with scat analysis, a more traditional method of determining diet ...
Michelle M. Bacon +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Forage availability and predation risk interact to affect habitat use of ungulates across many biomes. Within sky‐island habitats of the Mojave Desert, increased availability of diverse forage and cover may provide ungulates with unique opportunities to ...
Christopher Lowrey +5 more
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Cougar response to a gradient of human development
Ecosphere, 2017 Human populations continue to increase and transform Earth's ecosystems. For large carnivores, human development reduces habitat abundance, alters predator–prey dynamics, and increases the risk of mortality, which may threaten the viability of many ...
Benjamin Maletzke +6 more
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Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Interactions between humans and cougars (Puma concolor) have been steadily increasing over the past 20 years largely due to human encroachment into cougar habitat and an increase in the human population.
Clarisse Thornton, Michael S. Quinn
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, 2022 Cougars make a living by not being seen. In areas disturbed by humans, these cats are most active at dusk and early in the morning. In low-light conditions, cougars see up to six times better than humans.
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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 +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 +3 more
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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 +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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