An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf by Thomas F. Weisse
by Thomas F. Weise
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About this eBook
- Author
- Robinson, William Laughlin, 1933-
- Title
- An Experimental Translocation of the Eastern Timber Wolf
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Gray wolf -- Reintroduction -- Michigan
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 35006
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35006
- Release Date
- January 19, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FOREWORD — AN EXPERIMENTAL TRANSLOCATION OF THE EASTERN TIMBER WOLF
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.ABSTRACT
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.THE STUDY AREA
- 6.METHODS
- 7.RESULTS — Social Structure of the Translocated Wolves — Aerial Tracking — Movements of the Translocated Wolves — Post-Release Phase — Directional Movement Phase — Exploratory Phase — Settled Phase — Movements of the Remaining Pack Member — Movements of Wolf No. 10 — Feeding Habits — Citizen Sightings — Habitat Use — Failure of Female No. 11 to Whelp — Demise of the Translocated Wolves
- 8.DISCUSSION — Effect of Captivity and Human Contact — Movements — Environmental Influences — Possible Homing Tendencies — Distances Traveled — Home Range Size — Selection of a Territory — Vulnerability and Mortality — Food Habits and Predation — An Alternate Approach
- 9.CONCLUSIONS
- 10.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 11.LITERATURE CITED
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