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- Title
RADIO MARKING THE FIRST GROUP OF ENDANGERED PATAGONIAN HUEMUL DEER IN ARGENTINA.
- Authors
Flueck, Werner T.; Smith-Flueck, Jo Anne M.
- Abstract
In Argentina, 350-500 endangered huemul remain. Huemul were radio-collared in Chubut during six winter days. Encountering huemul each day averaged 93 minutes (17 groups, 37 individuals). Spotting until darting an animal averaged 46 minutes; darting distance averaged 15.7 m; and darting until recovery averaged 45.5 minutes. Ten capture attempts were made, of which six were successful. Compared to the only huemul previously radio-collared in Argentina (2016), the present operation required 96.5% less man-days/animal. Of marked huemul, 86% presented clinical pathologies, best explained by restriction to marginal if not sink areas, or ecological traps. This operation allowed the first-ever marking of a huemul buck and a group of six huemul in Argentina.
- Subjects
ARGENTINA; PATAGONIANS; DEER
- Publication
Journal of Neotropical Mammalogy / Mastozoologia Neotropical, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 2, p461
- ISSN
0327-9383
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31687/saremMN.18.25.2.0.07