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Diet And General Availability Of Prey Of The Coyote Canis Latrans At The Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge O
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Book Synopsis Diet and General Availability of Prey of the Coyote (Canis Latrans) at the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, O by : Deborah Gayle. Holle
Download or read book Diet and General Availability of Prey of the Coyote (Canis Latrans) at the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, O written by Deborah Gayle. Holle and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diet and General Availability of Prey of the Coyote (Canis Latrans) at the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma by : Deborah Gayle Holle
Download or read book Diet and General Availability of Prey of the Coyote (Canis Latrans) at the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma written by Deborah Gayle Holle and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Predation in Organisms by : Ashraf M.T. Elewa
Download or read book Predation in Organisms written by Ashraf M.T. Elewa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predation is considered one of the distinct phenomena related to the interrelationships between species on the Earth. In general, predation is widespread not only in wildlife but also in marine environments where big fishes eat small fishes and other organisms of the sea. This book considers predation in organisms and is aimed at the prevention of predation in wildlife and marine environments.
Book Synopsis Living with Coyotes by : Stuart R. Ellins
Download or read book Living with Coyotes written by Stuart R. Ellins and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coyote may well be North America's most adaptable large predator. While humans have depleted or eliminated most other native predators, the coyote has defied all attempts to exterminate it, simultaneously expanding its range from coast to coast and from wilderness to urban areas. As a result, coyotes are becoming the focus of increasing controversy and emotion for people across the continent— from livestock growers who would like to eradicate coyotes to conservationists who would protect them at any cost. In this thoughtful, well-argued, and timely book, Stuart Ellins makes the case that lethal methods of coyote management do not work and that people need to adopt a more humane way of coexisting with coyotes. Interweaving scientific data about coyote behavior and natural history with decades of field experience, he shows how endlessly adaptive coyotes are and how attempts to kill them off have only strengthened the species through natural selection. He then explains the process of taste aversion conditioning—which he has successfully employed—to stop coyotes from killing domestic livestock and pets. Writing frankly as an advocate of this effective and humane method of controlling coyotes, he asks, "Why are we mired in the use of archaic, inefficient, unsophisticated, and barbaric methods of wildlife management in this age of reason and high technology? This question must be addressed while there is still a wildlife to manage."
Book Synopsis Analyses of Coyote (canis Latrans) Consumption of Anthropogenic Material and Dietary Composition in Urban and Non-urban Habitats by : Audrey A. Hayes
Download or read book Analyses of Coyote (canis Latrans) Consumption of Anthropogenic Material and Dietary Composition in Urban and Non-urban Habitats written by Audrey A. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coyotes are a generalist species that have adapted to nearly every terrestrial habitat in the United States. The species' success is heavily attributed to their omnivorous diets and tolerance for environments that are regularly disturbed. Because the larger predator species that typically act as apex predators are sensitive to highly fragmented landscapes, the coyote is the functioning apex predator in many ecosystems where large predators, such as wolves, have been extirpated. The coyotes' ecological role in urban ecosystems has received much attention in the last few decades as the species' presence in cities and suburbs has increased, along with human-coyote conflicts. Anthropogenic supplementation, and reliance on anthropogenic food in particular, is regularly cited as the reason for coyotes being in urban areas. However, the inconsistencies reported in the literature indicate that the mechanisms driving coyotes into urban areas may be more complex than coyotes' potential attraction to human food. Coyotes are foragers and scavengers whose diets reflect the seasonal and local availability of food, where prey items that are more abundant are likely to be encountered and consumed more frequently than prey that are hard to find. This is also what makes coyotes so successful in colonizing most types of habitats. The purpose of this study was to investigate how coyotes' consumption of anthropogenic food varies between urban and non-urban habitats and if their consumption of anthropogenic food is selective or just a reflection of its increased availability in urban habitats. I conducted a meta-analysis on coyote dietary studies from 1975 to 2020 to identify trends in anthropogenic consumption and dietary composition in relation to habitat type, geographic region, season, and year of study. I also conducted a field study with scent-baited camera traps and scat analyses to test if coyotes in the Dayton area metroparks were attracted to anthropogenic food to the same degree as natural food, and to test if this attraction differed between urban and rural populations as a potential explanation for the increased prevalence of coyotes in urban areas. The scats were analyzed for [delta]13C and [delta]15N stable isotope ratios so that stable isotope mixing models could be used to estimate urban and rural coyote diet compositions from local prey isotope values. The results from the meta-analysis showed that coyote consumption of anthropogenic food is significantly higher in urban and agricultural habitats when compared to non-urban habitats (p
Book Synopsis Seasonal Variation in Coyote (Canis Latrans) Diet at the San Joaquin River, San Luis, and Merced National Wildlife Refuges by : Kelly Baker
Download or read book Seasonal Variation in Coyote (Canis Latrans) Diet at the San Joaquin River, San Luis, and Merced National Wildlife Refuges written by Kelly Baker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasonal variation of coyote (Canis latrans) diet was poorly understood in the northern San Joaquin Valley, specifically the coyotes' relative use of native mammals and birds, native plants, and crops. This study revealed microherbivore consumption within the refuge and outlying agricultural areas and some specific relationships between food item occurrences. I examined approximately 360 coyote fecal samples for undigested plant and animal matter to determine if diet varied within four seasonal periods and three locations. I hypothesized that: 1) seasonal use of items varied with seasonal availability, 2) non-seasonal food items were seen year round, 3) and food item use varied between the three sampling locations: the San Joaquin River, Merced, and San Luis National Wildlife Refuges. Scats were collected between May 2013 and March 2014 at three month intervals to create comprehensive sampling units. California voles (Microtus californicus) occurred predominantly in the diet for all seasons and all three refuges, consistent with hypothesis 2. Additionally, leporids (rabbits and hares) were prevalent in the diet. Birds were important at Merced and San Luis, but not San Joaquin River, likely because of a lack of managed wetlands. Hypothesis testing, binary linear regression and multiple binary linear regression, revealed that there was a significant difference between all combinations of locations and the three seasons, and that diet could be used to predict location and season, supporting hypotheses 1 and 3. Other testing revealed relationships between food items, such as the inverse use of tomatoes with California voles, or how the Winter and Spring seasons had similar dietary composition compared to Fall, which has greatest dietary disparity against all seasons. Similarly, the Merced and San Luis refuges had the most similar diets, with noticeable disparity from the San Joaquin River refuge. These results have implications in wildlife management. Specifically, this study revealed crop use by coyotes and how it changes seasonally between the three regions. Furthermore, coyotes consume wild plant matter, which may play a role in seed dispersal. Of greatest note, coyotes ate very little or no livestock between May 2013 and March 2014, which contradicts previous speculations about annual cattle kills caused by coyotes.
Book Synopsis Food Habits of Coyotes in a Semidesert Grass-shrub Habitat by : Henry L. Short
Download or read book Food Habits of Coyotes in a Semidesert Grass-shrub Habitat written by Henry L. Short and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Food Habits of the Coyote in Jackson Hole, Wyo by : Olaus Johan Murie
Download or read book Food Habits of the Coyote in Jackson Hole, Wyo written by Olaus Johan Murie and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seasonal Food Habits of Coyotes (Canis Latrans) in the Central Texas Hill Country by : Matthew Andrés Fischer
Download or read book Seasonal Food Habits of Coyotes (Canis Latrans) in the Central Texas Hill Country written by Matthew Andrés Fischer and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canis latrans (coyotes) are a ubiquitous predatory species, and have long received attention from livestock managers and wildlife protection advocates due to their predation on domestic animals, and the increasing occurrence of human-coyote conflicts. Food habit studies aid in the understanding of a predator’s role in their habitat. Through scat analysis, food habits of C. latrans were studied at the Kerr Wildlife Management Area (KWMA) in Hunt, Texas to examine seasonal differences in prey item consumption for individuals inhabiting the central Texas Hill Country region. Scat samples were collected along a 22.05-km route composed of dirt and paved roads every three weeks for one calendar year. Contents of the scat were classified as being from one of nine prey categories (arthropod, bird, boar, carnivora, herpetofauna, lagomorph, ungulate, unknown, or vegetation), and then quantified by counting the prey items. In addition, mass was measured (by prey category) and point-frame analysis for each scat sample was completed to determine relative percent cover. Spatial autocorrelation analysis was conducted, including the variables road type, habitat type, and optimized hotspot analyses. There were significant seasonal differences in percent count, mass and point-frame for carnivora, herpetofauna, lagomorph and vegetation. There were significantly more samples collected on paved roads compared to gravel roads, more collected in ashe juniper/live oak shrubland habitat than other habitats, and more from the southwest corner of the property, compared to other locations. Using this baseline compilation of preferred prey items of C. latrans in the Hill Country, more effective and ecologically-friendly management practices can be developed.
Book Synopsis Predator Damage in the West by : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Download or read book Predator Damage in the West written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coyote Control by Means of Den Hunting by : Stanley Paul Young
Download or read book Coyote Control by Means of Den Hunting written by Stanley Paul Young and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coyote written by François Leydet and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the interaction of two most successful large predatory species--the coyote and man.
Book Synopsis Seasonal Variations in Scavenging, Diet, and Foraging Behavior of Eastern Coyotes (Canis Latrans) on the Edwin S. George Reserve by : Karl Day Malcolm
Download or read book Seasonal Variations in Scavenging, Diet, and Foraging Behavior of Eastern Coyotes (Canis Latrans) on the Edwin S. George Reserve written by Karl Day Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Landscape Use and Diet of Coyotes, Canis Latrans, in the Chicago Metropolitan Area by : Paul Scott Morey
Download or read book Landscape Use and Diet of Coyotes, Canis Latrans, in the Chicago Metropolitan Area written by Paul Scott Morey and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coyotes written by Marc Bekoff and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this text pulls together much disparate research in coyote evolution, taxonomy, reproduction, communication, behavioral development, population dynamics, and ecological studies in the Southwest, Minnesota, Iowa, New England, and Wyoming. (Animals/Pets)
Book Synopsis Home Range Size, Vegetation Density, and Season Influences Prey Use by Coyotes (Canis Latrans) by : Jennifer N. Ward
Download or read book Home Range Size, Vegetation Density, and Season Influences Prey Use by Coyotes (Canis Latrans) written by Jennifer N. Ward and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To ensure reproductive success, Canis species establish contiguous mosaics of territories in suitable habitats to partition space and defend limiting resources. Consequently, Canis species can exert strong effects on prey populations locally because of their year-round maintenance of territories. We assessed prey use by coyotes (Canis latrans) by sampling scats from within known territories in southeastern Alabama and the Savannah River area of Georgia and South Carolina. We accounted for the size and habitat composition of coyote home ranges to investigate the influence of space use, vegetation density, and habitat type on coyote diets. Coyote use of prey was influenced by a combination of mean monthly temperature, home range size, vegetation density, and hardwood forests. For example, coyote use of adult white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was associated with cooler months and smaller home ranges, whereas use of rabbits (Sylvilagus spp.) was associated with cooler months, larger home ranges, and less vegetation density. Coyotes in our study relied primarily on nutritionally superior mammalian prey and supplemented their diet with fruit when available, as their use of mammalian prey did not appreciably decrease with increasing use of fruit. We suggest that differential use of prey by coyotes is influenced by habitat heterogeneity within their home ranges, and prey-switching behaviors may stabilize local interactions between coyotes and their food resources to permit stable year-round territories. Given that habitat composition affects coyote prey use, future studies should also incorporate effects of habitat composition on coyote distribution and abundance to further identify coyote influences on prey communities.
Book Synopsis Den Hunting as a Means of Coyote Control by : Stanley Paul Young
Download or read book Den Hunting as a Means of Coyote Control written by Stanley Paul Young and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den Hunting as a Means of Coyote Control is an attempt made by Stanley Paul Young to give some handy tips to the readers on Coyote control. Principal biologist, in charge of the Division of Predatory Animal and Rodent Control, Young wrote about the importance of Den Hunting stating, "Coyotes are particularly destructive during the denning season because of the need of extra food both for themselves and their young. Lambing bands of sheep on open ranges suffer the heaviest losses. Coyotes that kill lambs during April and May generally have dens, and when the dens are located and the whelps destroyed, the sheep killing usually stops." Contents of the book include: Importance of den hunting Qualifications and equipment of the den hunter Breeding habits and number of young Denning sites and habits Methods of den hunting Activities of whelps Removing whelps from dens Trapping and shooting adults
