Mountain Lions of the Black Hills

48 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills the porcupines. Those that had consumed the prey had quills and paws in the stom- ach, sugg ...

Population Dynamics of Mountain Lions 49 and Sweanor 2001). That was the case with our work. Although it can be difficult to mai ...

50 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills develop the value. We assumed that it was reasonable, however, because the region was semi- ...

400 350 300 250 Population siz e 200 150 100 50 0 popsize pslow poplowsem popwharv popharvdisp 1994 1996 1998 2000 Year 2002 200 ...

52 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills similar results (Clark et al. 2014). Also, the number of vehicle kills and removals in- cre ...

Population Dynamics of Mountain Lions 53 Mountain lion kittens can be born in any month of the year, but there is a peak in the ...

figure 4.7. Mountain lion kitten radio- collared to estimate kitten survival. Photo by B. Jansen. 10 9 8 7 Number of litters 6 5 ...

Population Dynamics of Mountain Lions 55 can become fertile again (physiologically in estrus) as soon as she acquires sufficient ...

56 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills and thus provides but a snapshot rather than a pattern of how litter size might have change ...

Population Dynamics of Mountain Lions 57 dispersal, as suggested by some of our first observations. There were cats that we be- ...

58 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills Montana, to the Judith Mountains in Montana (Thompson and Jenks 2010; fig. 4.11), and more ...

Population Dynamics of Mountain Lions 59 Based on our capture of 14 subadult male and 10 subadult female mountain lions, dispers ...

60 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills because they are based on straight- line distances, which are not characteristic of how mou ...

figure 4.13. Early home range contours of mountain lions captured and radio- collared in the Black Hills. Courtesy of Dan Thomps ...

62 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills These early, large home ranges were in part a function of the area where we began our work; ...

Population Dynamics of Mountain Lions 63 Population Compensation and Harvest Most studied prey (e.g., deer) populations exhibit ...

64 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills years when harvest was allowed (fig. 4.14), thus providing circumstantial evidence of reduc ...

Population Dynamics of Mountain Lions 65 the change in population through time. We believe that pattern is reasonable, but the a ...

66 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills Elbroch, L. M., P. E. Lendrum, H. Quigley, and A. Caragiulo. 2016. Spatial overlap in a sol ...

Population Dynamics of Mountain Lions 67 Mowat, G., S. Boutin, and B. G. Slough. 1996. Using placental scar counts to estimate l ...