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Presence of Nationally Banned Carbamates and Organophosphate Pesticides in Wild Carnivores, Southeastern Brazil

open access: yesEnvironmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As top predators, terrestrial carnivores face great risk of pesticide exposure and serve as sentinels of environmental contamination. Additionally, terrestrial carnivores are frequently threatened by intentional or secondary poisoning with highly toxic compounds, such as carbamates and organophosphates.
Marina Pellegrino da Silva   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Customized software to streamline routine analyses for wildlife management

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2018
It is widely recognized that modern computer software makes wildlife management and research easier and allows increasingly complex tasks to become routine.
J. Joshua Nowak   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Baseline study for monitoring water quality in the Cougar Creek/Northeast Interceptor Canal watershed

open access: yes, 2012
The Cougar Creek / Northeast Interceptor Canal watershed is located within the Corporation of Delta and the City of Surrey. Urbanization has been affecting the natural dynamic and environmental conditions of this watershed.
Sierra, Lina Maria
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Unraveling the impact of dog‐friendly spaces on urban–wildland pumas and other wildlife

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
As the most widespread large carnivore on the planet, domestic dogs Canis lupus familiaris can pose a major threat to wildlife, even within protected areas (PAs). Growing human presence in PAs, coupled with increasing pet dog ownership underscores the urgency to understand the influence of dogs on wildlife activity and health.
Alys Granados   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cougar

open access: yes, 2007
Sideview cougar walking, out of focus greenery in backgroundMedium ...

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Differences in mammal community response to highway construction across different levels of human land use

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Worldwide, transportation agencies have been involved in road mitigation efforts to reduce road mortality and promote connectivity of endangered species. Baseline data on how mammals respond to highway construction, however, are rarely collected in road mitigation and monitoring studies, including in the USA.
Thomas J. Yamashita   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Team Cougar Self- Diagnosis

open access: yes, 2004
This paper focuses on building and management of a cross-cultural team consisted of four gentlemen from different cultures. Team Cougar involved Wut Charoenpongpool from Thailand, Gorken Mimioglu of Turkey, and Hung Nguyen and Vinh Tran from Vietnam. The
Charoenpongpool, Wut   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Use of intraperitoneal radiotransmitters to study mountain lion (Puma concolor) Kittens

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2012
Implantation of radiotransmitters in juvenile carnivores allows researchers to study little‐known life stages. In the field, we successfully implanted 7 mountain lion (Puma concolor) kittens from 2 litters in the Santa Monica Mountains (Los Angeles and ...
Joanne Gale Moriarty   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Citizen science project on urban canids provides different results from camera traps but generates interest and revenue

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
As urbanization increases, wildlife increasingly encounters people. Coyotes Canis latrans and red foxes Vulpes vulpes are two canid species that have readily adapted to urban environments. Citizen science has emerged as a low‐cost method of collecting data on urban‐adapted species that can benefit management agencies but may provide different results ...
Neville F. Taraporevala   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predation of cougar kittens following the aggregation of American black bears

open access: yesEcosphere
The prevalence, intensity, or outcome of interference competition and interspecific killing between predominantly solitary species operating on large spatial scales is challenging to document or test.
Marcus D. Bianco   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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