Characteristics of Black Hills Mountain Lions 41cats) would potentially confuse the hounds during chases. As mentioned, all our cap-
ture methods were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at
SDSU and followed recommendations of the American Society of Mammalogists (Gan-
non, Sikes, and Animal Care and Use Committee 2007; Sikes, Gannon, and Animal
Care and Use Committee 2011, 2016).
figure 3.8. Gradu ate research assistant Brian Jansen (center) with the
author (right), weighing a captured adult male mountain lion in Custer
State Park. The mountain lion was captured using snares, with a deer
carcass as bait. Photo by students in a large mammal ecol ogy and management
class at South Dakota State University.