Evaluating cougar translocation in New Mexico
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The feasibility of translocation as a management tool to reestablish populations, relieve the threat of inbreeding in isolated populations and manage problem individuals was evaluated in a sample of translocated wild cougars in New Mexico. The outcome of cougar translocation was shown to be influenced by sex, age and social status of the cougar prior to translocation. Movements and establishments of translocated cougars may have been influenced by human activities. Higher mortality rates were exhibited by translocated cougars.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 1998
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Winter prey selection by wolves and cougars in and near Glacier National Park, Montana
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Cougars and wolves have a major impact on the community where they live, and especially on populations of the deer family. New management opportunities have appeared with the reintroduction of wolves in a number of areas in the US where there are also cougar populations. A study in Montana found that both cougars and wolves chose deer in preference to elk, and the deer they killed were of similar conditions, ages and sexes. Both species tended to kill younger, older and weaker members of the population.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 1999
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Cougar dispersal patterns, metapopulation dynamics, and conservation
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Emigration, immigration of cougar (Puma concolor) was examined in the San Andres Mountains, New Mexico. In Southern New Mexico, cougars exhibited a metapopulation structure in which cougar subpopulations were separated by expanses of noncougar habitat and linked by dispersers.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2000
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