Social and nutritional factors influencing the dispersal of resident coyotes

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1025-1043

  Gese, Eric M ^a   Ruff, Robert L ^b   Crabtree, Robert L ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS LATRANS; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

COYOTE; NATAL DISPERSAL; NUTRITION; PHILOPATRY;

USA, WYOMING, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 0030274205     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0250     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Andelt, W. F. 1985. Behavioral ecology of coyotes in South Texas. Wildl. Monogr., 94, 1-45.
2. Balser, D. S. 1965. Tranquilizer tabs for capturing wild carnivores. J. Wildl. Mgmt, 29, 438-442.
3. Bekoff, M. 1974. Social play and play-soliciting by infant canids. Am. Zool., 14, 323-340.
4. Bekoff, M. 1977a. Mammalian dispersal and the ontogeny of individual behavioral phenotypes. Am. Nat., 111, 715-732.
5. Bekoff, M. 1977b. Quantitative studies of three areas of classical ethology: social dominance, behavioral taxonomy, and behavioral variability. In: Quantitative Methods in the Study of Animal Behavior (Ed. by B. A. Hazlett), pp. 1-46. New York: Academic Press.
6. Bekoff, M. 1978. Behavioral development in coyotes and eastern coyotes. In: Coyotes: Biology, Behavior, and Management (Ed. by M. Bekoff), pp. 97-126. New York: Academic Press.
7. Bekoff, M. 1989. Behavioral development of terrestrial carnivores. In: Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution (Ed. by J. L. Gittleman), pp. 89-124. New York: Cornell University Press.
8. Bowen, W. D. 1981. Variation in coyote social organization: the influence of prey size. Can. J. Zool., 59, 639-652.
9. Christian, J. J. 1970. Social subordination, population density, and mammalian evolution. Science, 168, 84-90.
10. Cornely, J. E. 1979. Anesthesia of coyotes with ketamine hydrochloride and xylazine. J. Wildl. Mgmt, 43, 577-579.
11. Fox, M. W. 1969. The anatomy of aggression and its ritualization in canidae: a developmental and comparative study. Behaviour, 35, 242-258.
12. Fritts, S. H. & Mech, L. D. 1981. Dynamics, movements, and feeding ecology of a newly protected wolf population in northwestern Minnesota. Wildl. Monogr., 80, 1-79.
13. Fuller, J. L. & DuBuis, E. M. 1962. The behavior of dogs. In: The Behavior of Domestic Animals (Ed. by E. Hafez), pp. 415-452. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox.
14. Fuller, T. K. 1989. Population dynamics of wolves in north-central Minnesota. Wildl. Monogr., 105, 1-41.
15. Gese, E. M. & Grothe, S. 1995. Analysis of coyote predation on deer and elk during winter in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Am. Midl. Nat., 133, 36-43.
16. Gese, E. M. & Mech, L. D. 1991. Dispersal of wolves (Canis lupus) in northeastern Minnesota, 1969-1989. Can. J. Zool., 69, 2946-2955.
17. Gese, E. M., Rongstad, O. J. & Mytton, W. R. 1988. Home range and habitat use of coyotes in southeastern Colorado. J. Wildl. Mgmt, 52, 640-646.
18. Gese, E. M., Ruff, R. L. & Crabtree, R. L. 1996a. Foraging ecology of coyotes (Canis latrans): the influence of extrinsic factors and a dominance hierarchy. Can. J. Zool., 74, 769-783.
19. Gese, E. M., Ruff, R. L. & Crabtree, R. L. 1996b. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing coyote predation of small mammals in Yellowstone National Park. Can. J. Zool., 74, 784-797.
20. Greenwood, P. J. 1980. Mating systems, philopatry and dispersal in birds and mammals. Anim. Behav., 28, 1140-1162.
21. Hamilton, W. D. 1972. Altruism and related phenomena, mainly in social insects. A. Rev. Ecol. Syst., 3, 193-232.
22. Harris, S. & White, P. C. L. 1992. Is reduced affliative rather than increased agonistic behaviour associated with dispersal in red foxes? Anim. Behav., 44, 1085-1089.
23. Harrison, D. J. 1992. Dispersal characteristics of juvenile coyotes in Maine. J. Wildl. Mgmt, 56, 128-138.
24. Holekamp, K. E. 1984. Natal dispersal in Belding's ground squirrels (Spermophilus beldingi). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 16, 21-30.
25. Holekamp, K. E. 1986. Proximate causes of natal dispersal in Belding's ground squirrels (Spermophilus beldingi). Ecol. Monogr, 56, 365-391.
26. Houston, D. B. 1978. Elk as winter-spring food for carnivores in northern Yellowstone National Park. J. appl. Ecol., 15, 653-661.
27. Houston, D. B. 1982. The Northern Yellowstone Elk: Ecology and Management. New York: Macmillan.
28. Howard, W. E. 1960. Innate and environmental dispersal of individual vertebrates. Am. Midl. Nat., 63, 152-161.
29. Kleiman, D. G. & Brady, C. A. 1978. Coyote behavior in the context of recent canid research: problems and perspectives. In: Coyotes: Biology, Behavior, and Management (Ed. by M. Bekoff), pp. 163-188. New York: Academic Press.
30. Knight, S. W. 1978. Dominance hierarchies of captive coyote litters. M.S. thesis, Utah State University.
31. Knowlton, F. F. & Stoddart, L. C. 1983. Coyote population mechanics: another look. In: Symposium on Natural Regulation of Wildlife Populations (Ed. by F. L. Bunnell, D. S. Eastman & J. M. Peek), pp. 93-111. Moscow, Idaho: Forest, Wildlife, and Range Experiment Station, University of Idaho.
32. Lehner, P. N. 1979. Handbook of Ethological Methods. New York: Garland STPM Press.
33. Lidicker, W. Z. 1975. The role of dispersal in the demography of small mammals. In: Small Mammals: Productivity and Dynamics of Populations (Ed. by K. Petrusewicz, E. B. Golley & L. Ryszkowski), pp. 103-128. London: Cambridge University Press.
34. Linhart, S. B. & Knowlton, F. F. 1967. Determining age of coyotes by tooth cementum layers. J. Wildl. Mgmt, 31, 362-365.
35. Lockwood, R. 1979. Dominance in wolves: useful construct or bad habit? In: The Behavior and Ecology of Wolves (Ed. by E. Klinghammer), pp. 225-244. New York: Garland STPM Press.
36. Macdonald, D. W. 1980. Social factors affecting reproduction amongst red foxes. In: The Red Fox: Symposium on Behaviour and Ecology (Ed. by E. Zimen), pp. 123-175. The Hague: Junk.
37. Martin, P. & Bateson, P. 1993. Measuring Behaviour: An Introductory Guide. 2nd edn. London: Cambridge University Press.
38. Mech, L. D. 1970. The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species. Garden City, New Jersey: Natural History Press.
39. Mech, L. D. 1974. Current techniques in the study of elusive wilderness carnivores. Int. Congr. Game Biol., 11, 315-322.
40. Mech, L. D. 1987. Age, season, distance, direction, and social aspects of wolf dispersal from a Minnesota pack. In: Mammalian Dispersal Patterns (Ed. by B. D. Chepko-Sade & Z. Halpin), pp. 55-74. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
41. Messier, F. 1985. Solitary living and extraterritorial movements of wolves in relation to social status and prey abundance. Can. J. Zool., 63, 239-245.
42. Moore, J. & Ali, R. 1984. Are dispersal and inbreeding avoidance related? Anim. Behav., 32, 94-112.
43. Morrison, M. L., Marcot, B. G. & Mannan, R. W. 1992. Wildlife-Habitat Relationships. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
44. Murie, A. 1940. Ecology of the coyote in the Yellowstone. U.S. National Park Service Fauna Series, 4, 1-206.
45. Packard, J. M. & Mech, L. D. 1980. Population regulation in wolves. In: Biosocial Mechanisms of Population Regulation (Ed. by M. N. Cohen, R. S. Malpass & H. G. Klein), pp. 135-150. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
46. Rabb, G. B., Woolpy, J. H. & Ginsburg, B. E. 1967. Social relationships in a group of captive wolves. Am. Zool., 7, 305-311.
47. Robinson, W. B. & Cummings, M. W. 1951. Movements of coyotes from and to Yellowstone National Park. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. Spec. Sci. Rep. Wildl., 11, 1-17.
48. Schenkel, R. 1947. Expression studies of wolves. Behaviour, 1, 81-129.
49. Schenkel, R. 1967. Submission: its features and function in the wolf and dog. Am. Zool., 7, 319-329.
50. Snyder, R. L. 1961. Evolution and integration of mechanisms that regulate population growth. Proc. natn Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 47, 449-455.
51. Steel, R. G. D. & Torrie, J. H. 1980. Principles and Procedures of Statistics: A Biometrical Approach. New York: McGraw-Hill.
52. Taylor, L. R. & Taylor, R. A. J. 1977. Aggregation, migration and population mechanics. Nature Lond., 265, 415-421.
53. Van Vleck, D. B. 1968. Movements of Microtus pennsylvanicus in relation to depopulated areas. J. Mammal., 49, 92-103.
54. Waser, P. M. 1985. Does competition drive dispersal? Ecology, 66, 1170-1175.
55. White, P. C. L. & Harris, S. 1994. Encounters between red foxes (Vulpes vulpes): implications for territory maintenance, social cohesion and dispersal. J. Anim. Ecol., 63, 315-327.
56. Zimen, E. 1975. Social dynamics of the wolf pack. In: The Wild Canids: Their Systematics, Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (Ed. by M. W. Fox), pp. 336-362. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
57. Zimen, E. 1976. On the regulation of pack size in wolves. Z. Tierpsychol., 40, 300-341.
58. Zimen, E. 1981. The Wolf: A Species in Danger. New York: Delacorte Press.