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JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
Volume 73, Issue 1, Pages 144-148Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.2193/2008-032
Keywords
abortion; birth site; calving behavior; Cervus elaphus; elk; parturition; radiotelemetry; vaginal implant transmitter; Wyoming
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We assessed success of vaginal implant transmitters (VITs), deployed in 198 elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni), in locating elk calving sites in western Wyoming, USA, in 2006-2007. We identified 60.3% of expelled VIT locations as definite or probable event markers and an additional 21.8% as possible event markers. Failure rate for VITs was 10.6%, and we found an additional 7.3% in improbable or impossible parturition sites. Vaginal implant transmitters were effective in locating calving and abortion sites and will facilitate definition of parturition habitat selection and parturition ranges of specific subpopulations. ( JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT 73( 1): 144-148; 2009)
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