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Selective predation on Utah prairie dogs


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dc.creatorHoogland, John
dc.creatorCannon, Kristin
dc.creatorManno, Theodore
dc.creatorDeBarbieri, Lili
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-17T20:11:46Z
dc.date.available2023-05-17T20:11:46Z
dc.date.created2006
dc.identifier10.1086/507714en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/507714en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50513
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-581
dc.description.abstractPredation always affects demography and population dynamics, but removal of certain types of individuals is especially consequential. Predators strike quickly and commonly avoid areas with human observers, however, and thereby make it difficult to document patterns of predation under natural conditions. At a colony of marked Utah prairie dogs (Cynomys parvidens), a high frequency of predation in 2005 provided an unusual opportunity to examine susceptibility of five types of individuals to predation by red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and northern goshawks (Accipiter gentilis). Juveniles were more vulnerable than adults to predation by northern goshawks. Adults at the edge of the colony were more vulnerable than central adults to predation by both red foxes and northern goshawks. Recent immigrants, who were not yet familiar with the best routes for escape, were more likely than longtime residents to be captured by northern goshawks. Adult males, preoccupied with finding, impregnating, and guarding estrous females during the 17-day mating season, were easy targets for red foxes and northern goshawks. Pregnant females, who could not run quickly, were especially prone to predation by red foxes.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAmerican Naturalisten_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries0003-0147en_US
dc.rights©The Authors 2006. ©University of Chicago Press 2006. This is this the version of record published by the University of Chicago Press. It is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Hoogland, John L., Kristin E. Cannon, Lili M. DeBarbieri, and Theodore G. Manno. Selective predation on Utah prairie dogs. The American Naturalist 168, no. 4 (2006): 546-552.en_US
dc.subjectCynomys parvidensen_US
dc.subjectnorthern goshawken_US
dc.subjectpredationen_US
dc.subjectred foxen_US
dc.subjectUtah prairie dogen_US
dc.subjectvulnerabilityen_US
dc.titleSelective predation on Utah prairie dogsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume168en_US
dc.citation.issue4en_US
dc.citation.spage546en_US
dc.citation.epage552en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US

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