Download or read book The Effect of Early Experience with Flavors on the Subsequent Food Preferences of Captive Coyotes Canis Latrans written by Krista Mari Wenning and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings Vertebrate Pest Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Predictability of Food Resources and It s Effect on Foraging and Exploratory Behaviour of Captive Coyotes Canis Latrans written by Lynne Gilbert-Norton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effects of Social Status and Learning on Captive Coyote Canis Latrans Behavior written by Lynne Barbara Gilbert-Norton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many canids live within hierarchical social systems that could promote differences in learning or in behavior between ranked individuals. Differences in foraging and territorial behavior have been observed between ranked coyotes (Canis latrans), yet effects of learning and social status on coyote behavior are not thoroughly understood. I explored a) coyote response to an artificial scent boundary and whether response differed by status, b) how foraging coyotes tracked temporal resource change, and c) how coyotes find spatially distributed food, and the effect of dominance on foraging behavior. I used male/female pairs of captive coyotes at the National Wildlife Research Center Predator Research Facility in Utah. Prior to testing, I identified social rank within pairs by testing for food dominance. In study 1, I laid a scent boundary and monitored space use with GPS and observed behavioral responses directly. All coyotes investigated and crossed the boundary, but were repelled more by human presence. Subordinates investigated and marked the boundary more than dominants. Further investigation is needed to mimic natural boundaries for management purposes. In study 2, I gave eight individual coyotes an operant test with concurrent variable interval (VI) schedules. I varied the ratio of resources and measured the time spent on two choices, then fitted the generalized matching equation to the data. I found that all coyotes efficiently tracked changes in resource ratios and matched their relative rate of foraging time to relative rate of resources. Matching theory provides an effective methodology to explore foraging strategies and behavioral flexibility in coyotes. In study 3, I tested 16 coyotes in a spatial foraging task. Coyotes searched for food in eight potential locations, and were tested individually and in respective pairs. I recorded the area and number of locations searched, approach time, and frequency of marking by dominant and subordinate coyotes. Results showed individual subordinates increased efficiency by relocating, but their efficiency decreased when foraging in pairs. Dominant coyotes did not increase efficiency in company by following subordinates. Coyotes marked the correct feeder more than incorrect feeders. Results suggest coyotes use memory and odor (scent marks) to find food, but that social status overrules information use.

Download or read book The Development of Food Preferences written by Wanda Wyrwicka and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1981 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: A reference text for nutritionists, psychobiologists, pediatricians, and clinicians describes experimental work on the selection of foods by young animals exposed to the example of their mother, and the potential application of the results to humans. The 25 topics of the text are organized under 6 principal themes including the early stages of feeding behavior in rats and birds; social influences on independent feeding development in rat pups and birds; the maternal influence on such development in weanling kittens; mechanisms involved in the development of food preferences; the persistence of early food preferences in later life; and the advantages and disadvantages of parental influence on food preferences of offspring. A summary is given at the end of each of the 6 chapters, and a general overview summary is appended. (wz).

Download or read book Studies of Pelage Changes Food Habits and Breeding Habits of Captive Coyotes Canis Latrans Latrans written by Eldon Eugene Whiteman and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Food Habits of Coyotes in a Semidesert Grass shrub Habitat written by Henry L. Short and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effect of Food Availability on the Social Organization and Behavior of Captive Coyotes C a n i s L a t r a n s written by Susan Lyndaker Lindsey and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Habituation and Variable Captive Coyote Response to Behavior Contingent Stimuli written by Patrick Austin Darrow and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I performed a pilot studies using a behavior-contingent scare device to protect a novel food. I examined the hypothesis that a scare device would increase latency until food consumption. I performed a second observational pilot study examined the variation in the response of captive coyotes to the behavior-contingent scare device. A third experiment examined the effects of individual stimuli or a combination of stimuli on coyote habituation. A chi-square test of homogeneity of proportions showed a larger proportion of coyotes specifically habituated to the sound-only treatment. (chi 2 = 7.8, DF = 2, P = 0.02), I analyzed the variables of gender, age, social status, rearing, and distance from another pen with a scare device to determine if they predicted trends in boldness or shyness. Social status was the only variable that predicted boldness, with subordinate coyotes being the most likely habituate to the scare device and attempt to eat.

Download or read book Effect of Housing Type on Captive Coyote Canis Latrans Behavior and Physiology written by Stacey P. Brummer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Food Habits and Anthropogenic Supplementation in the Diet of Coyotes Canis Latrans Along an Urban rural Gradient written by Erica M. Santana and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Food Habits of Coyotes Canis Latrans on Barrier Islands written by Keri Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Taste Experience and Feeding written by Elizabeth D. Capaldi and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the recent surge of work on taste, experience and feeding, and presents the papers of investigators who use different perspectives, methods and experimental subjects in the study of the various aspects of these topics. The volume is divided into six parts, each dealing with a different aspect of taste and feeding. Topics covered are current perspective of and approach to feeding used by most researchers; taste perception; the genetic and developmental aspects of taste and feeding; learning and feeding; taste preferences, food consumption, and human obesity; and social influences and feeding.

Download or read book Food Habits of Coyotes Canis Latrans in Eastern Tehama County California written by E. E. Littrell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Behavioral Development of Scent marking in Captive Male Coyotes Canis Latrans written by Christine Louise Quayle and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Comparison of the Winter Food Habits of Coyotes canis Latrans and Red Foxes vulpes Vulpes in Central Saskatchewan written by Marvin Alastair Eng and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seasonal Food Habits of Coyotes Canis Latrans in the Central Texas Hill Country written by Matthew Andrés Fischer and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canis latrans (coyotes) are a ubiquitous predatory species, and have long received attention from livestock managers and wildlife protection advocates due to their predation on domestic animals, and the increasing occurrence of human-coyote conflicts. Food habit studies aid in the understanding of a predator’s role in their habitat. Through scat analysis, food habits of C. latrans were studied at the Kerr Wildlife Management Area (KWMA) in Hunt, Texas to examine seasonal differences in prey item consumption for individuals inhabiting the central Texas Hill Country region. Scat samples were collected along a 22.05-km route composed of dirt and paved roads every three weeks for one calendar year. Contents of the scat were classified as being from one of nine prey categories (arthropod, bird, boar, carnivora, herpetofauna, lagomorph, ungulate, unknown, or vegetation), and then quantified by counting the prey items. In addition, mass was measured (by prey category) and point-frame analysis for each scat sample was completed to determine relative percent cover. Spatial autocorrelation analysis was conducted, including the variables road type, habitat type, and optimized hotspot analyses. There were significant seasonal differences in percent count, mass and point-frame for carnivora, herpetofauna, lagomorph and vegetation. There were significantly more samples collected on paved roads compared to gravel roads, more collected in ashe juniper/live oak shrubland habitat than other habitats, and more from the southwest corner of the property, compared to other locations. Using this baseline compilation of preferred prey items of C. latrans in the Hill Country, more effective and ecologically-friendly management practices can be developed.