Mountain Lions of the Black Hills

88 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills and intestines. About the time the lion population became saturated, we documented increase ...

Nutritional Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 89 At the time when the lion population was believed to be saturated ( after about 2005), ...

90 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks advised residents to keep pets in- doors, t ...

figure 6.9. Lactating adult female mountain lion in the Black Hills. Photo by Emily Mitchell. Table 6.5. Cause- specific mortali ...

92 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills deer, to the contrary, are a more wary species when compared to mule deer, and white- taile ...

Nutritional Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 93 Fall River County near Hot Springs, South Dakota, also tested positive for the disease ...

94 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills document prey carcasses at those sites to determine what was being killed and how often lio ...

Nutritional Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 95 just a few locations per day. To deal with these potential issues, we deci ded to incr ...

96 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills (e.g., adult males and females, females with kittens) of lions (although the sample size wa ...

Nutritional Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 97 fairly uniformly distributed across the region (although not mule deer versus white- t ...

98 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills age was similar for those carcasses that were positive and those that were negative for the ...

Nutritional Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 99 the be hav ior and distribution of new and possibly “naive” prey (Berger, Swenson, and ...

100 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills DePerno, C. S., J. A. Jenks, S. L. Griffin, and L. A. Rice. 2000. Female survival rates in ...

Nutritional Ecol ogy of Mountain Lions 101 Logan, K. A., and L. L. Sweanor. 2001. Desert Puma: Evolutionary ecol ogy and conserv ...

102 As with any initial proj ect working on a new species in a new area, when we began working on mountain lions in the Black Hi ...

Genetics of Mountain Lions 103 son, Lindzey, and McDonald 2004). That study supported our early observations of captured lions, ...

104 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills also had initiated a harvest of mountain lions in the Badlands region of the state, where ...

Genetics of Mountain Lions 105 Badlands. Other indices (observed and expected heterozygosity) also supported this finding. Never ...

106 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills the lower levels of diversity, the indication was that, relative to other populations, the ...

Genetics of Mountain Lions 107 (SD: n = 26; ND: n = 6), indicating that lions from other regions of North Amer i ca contributed ...