Publications
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The source of animals moving into a depopulated area
SUMMARY 1. The wood mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) population in a 17-acre area of bottomland forest was live-trapped, marked and released over a 7-night period. Following the live-trapping a central 1-acre plot was snap-trapped for 35 consecutive nights. All adult animals taken in the central snap-trapped plot had previously been taken, marked, and released in the live-trapped 17-acre area.
Authors
L. F. Stickel
Experimental analysis of methods for measuring small mammal populations
SUMMARY: The Peromyscus leucopus on a 17-acre study area were live-trapped, marked, and released over a seven-day period. On the three following nights intensive snap-trapping was done on the central acre of the study plot. The animals caught by snap traps in the central acre represented the population of the central acre and several surrounding acres. By the currently accepted methods of
Authors
L. F. Stickel
Sexual dimorphism in the pelvic spurs of Enygrus
No abstract available.
Authors
W. H. Stickel, L. F. Stickel
Nutrient content of some winter grouse foods
Seventeen preferred grouse foods were collected during the late winter and analyzed for nutrient content. The results include moisture, crude protein, ether extract, crude fiber, nitrogenfree extract, ash, calcium, phosphorus, and gross energy content expressed both on moisture free and fresh bases.....The preferred winter foods of grouse are characterized by a high content of dry substance and of
Authors
R.R. Treichler, R.W. Stow, A.L. Nelson
Food habits of the raccoon in eastern Texas
The food habits of raccoons were studied along the Neches River in three counties of eastern Texas in 1940-42. Field studies mere supplemented by laboratory analyses of 344 scats collected in all months and of 23 stomachs and 11 intestines obtained in winter. Acorns and crayfish constitute more than half of the yearly diet and both are consumed in considerable amount at all seasons. Persimmons an
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R.H. Baker, C.C. Newman, F. Wilke
Sulfonamide drugs in the treatment of ulcerative enteritis of quail
No abstract available.
Authors
H.M. Churchill, D.R. Coburn