Captivity effects on wide-ranging carnivores

Bobcats (Lynx rufus) as a Model Organism to Investigate the Effects of Roads on Wide-Ranging Carnivores.

We are using bobcats (Lynx rufus) as a model organism to examine how roads affect the abundance, distribution, and genetic structure of a wide-ranging carnivore. First, we compared the distribution of bobcat-vehicle collisions to road density and then estimated collision probabilities for specific landscapes using a moving window with road-specific traffic volume. Next, we obtained incidental o...

Wide-ranging Survey on Authentication Mechanisms

More than storing a huge volume of data in Datacenters, protecting them from threats is a major concern in our heterogeneous networks. From local host to cloud, finding a space to store data was the issue in the earlier whereas retrieving by the right person is the issue in the later. But in both the scenarios, protecting the data from illegal use and unethical access is dispute. Access to a se...

Considerations for lmmunocontraception Among Free-Ranging Carnivores: The Rabies Paradigm

Bovine tuberculosis in free-ranging carnivores from Michigan.

During a survey of carnivores and omnivores for bovine tuberculosis conducted in Michigan (USA) since 1996, Mycobacterium bovis was cultured from lymph nodes pooled from six coyotes (Canis latrans) (four adult female, two adult male), two adult male raccoons (Procyon lotor), one adult male red fox (Vulpes vulpes), and one 1.5-yr-old male black bear (Ursus americanus). One adult, male bobcat (Fe...

Effects of Trophy Hunting Leftovers on the Ranging Behaviour of Large Carnivores: A Case Study on Spotted Hyenas

Human-related food resources such as garbage dumps and feeding sites have been shown to significantly influence space use, breeding success and population dynamics in a variety of animal species. In contrast, relatively little is known on the effects of unpredictable sources of food, such as carcasses discarded by hunters, on carnivore species. We evaluated the effect of elephant carcasses, mai...