Mountain Lions of the Black Hills

28 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills Game, Fish and Parks. During the first years of harvest, mountain lions were protected here ...

Ecol ogy of the Black Hills 29 1993–1997. Completion Report No. 99-03, Federal Aide to Wildlife Restoration, Job W-75- R-34. Sou ...

30 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills Turner, R. W. 1974. Mammals of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. Miscellaneous P ...

31 When we set out to capture mountain lions in 1999, few thought we would be suc- cessful, because of the low number of individ ...

32 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills border) to the central (Deerfield Lake and east to Route 385) region of the Black Hills. Af ...

Characteristics of Black Hills Mountain Lions 33 biological data, reversed the immobilizing agents, and remained close to the an ...

figure 3.2. Captured mountain lion (M4) exhibiting faded barring on inner legs that was used, in addition to dental characterist ...

Characteristics of Black Hills Mountain Lions 35 of male mountain lions differed by age class, and both adult and subadult males ...

36 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills animal is from the viewer, the larger it seems to be; thus tabby cats (fig. 3.4) that are o ...

figure 3.5. Top, a characteristic mountain lion paw, showing four toes, the three- lobed hind pad, and retracted claws. Bottom, ...

38 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills Capturing Mountain Lions During our studies of mountain lions in the Black Hills, we captur ...

Characteristics of Black Hills Mountain Lions 39 with feces. Once a site for bait was established, we set a deer or other carcas ...

40 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills after the trapping. Such quick recovery might have occurred because, when they were trapped ...

Characteristics of Black Hills Mountain Lions 41 cats) would potentially confuse the hounds during chases. As mentioned, all our ...

figure 3.9. Young mountain lions captured with the use of snares in the Black Hills. Courtesy of B. Jansen. figure 3.10. A mount ...

Characteristics of Black Hills Mountain Lions 43 Lit er a ture Cited Anderson, C. R., Jr., and F. G. Lindzey. 2000. A guide to e ...

44 On one of my trips to the Black Hills, our plan was to fly over an area to locate the approximately 10 mountain lions we had ...

Population Dynamics of Mountain Lions 45 strug gled to remain upright as I walked from the plane to the terminal. Two hours late ...

46 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills Game, Fish and Parks officials and Fred Lindzey, assistant leader of the Wyoming Cooperativ ...

figure 4.2. Top, a subadult male mountain lion that succumbed to injuries from an encounter with an adult territorial male in th ...