Mountain Lions of the Black Hills

68 I have had a scientific curiosity concerning wildlife diseases since my experiences as a gradu ate student studying deer nutr ...

Disease Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 69 Because there was no information available to answer this question, we began a study funde ...

70 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills neutrophil infiltration of the corneal tissues (Jansen 2011). We began capturing lions and ...

Disease Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 71 sexually transmitted diseases. Additional analyses, however, did not support Chlamydia as ...

72 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills domestic cats, actions that became more common when the population was believed to be satur ...

Disease Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 73 indicating lions were ill or that could be used to document the progression of disease wit ...

74 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills 1% of tested samples). Therefore, although deaths of Florida panthers had been asso- ciated ...

Disease Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 75 distribution of prey susceptible to the protozoan. Rotstein et al. (2000) stated that prev ...

76 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills ease. One such subadult mountain lion that fought with a territory holder of approxi- mate ...

Disease Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 77 Lit er a ture Cited Bauman, P. J., J. A. Jenks, and D. E. Roddy. 1999. Evaluating techniqu ...

78 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills Maehr, D. S. 1997. Florida panther: Life and death of a vanishing carnivore. Washington, DC ...

79 My experience with wildlife nutrition began at the University of Maine, where I worked under the direction of Dr. David M. Le ...

80 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills because the animal was bored. These subadult lions, however, were thin, with low fat levels ...

figure 6.1. Mountain lion kittens raised in captivity at South Dakota State University. Body weights were used to generate growt ...

82 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills older than about 26 weeks. However, that would be expected, because as kittens aged, we fed ...

Nutritional Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 83 tribute young to the population. Furthermore, one female lost her litter to infanticid ...

84 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills stores also allowed us to quantify our visual estimates of fat levels, because we had both ...

800 700 600 500 Total kidney fat inde x 400 300 200 100 0 050 100 150 Riney kidney fat index 200 250 female male 300 figure 6.5. ...

86 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills 5 years, especially for males, which possibly reflects the costs of holding and main- taini ...

Nutritional Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 87 reduction by harvest. During this time we also were able to document subtle changes in ...