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What are differnet bird traps

Traps, Lights, Mist nets, Drive and drift traps, Decoys, Snares, Nest traps

What are some mammal traps

Traps Snares Net gun Oral drugs Other methods

What are some example and scent and bait

Alfalfa and rotten eggs for scent

What is the trap most commonly used for live trapping and reduce injury

Padded jaw leg-hold traps

What are the 6 stage testing

Mechanical test (mechanical properties of the trap; size, mass, forces, etc.), Strike location test (SS or DS on animal), Approach test, Pre-selection (anaesthetized) test (loss of papebral eye reflex), Compound test ,Field test

What is a Bailey or Hancock live traps used for

Capture beavers and otters

What is Museum Special snap traps

What is Aldrich leg snares used for.

Bears

What is another method of capturing bear.

Culvert trap

Box trap and what else is used to capture deer.

Clover traps

Drive and drift trap

What are the pros of a aerial survey

Census not sample, complete count, takes less time

What are the pros of an trail camera survey

Cheaper, recruistment, buck:doe ratio can both be estimated, detect small scale population changes

Best time for trail camera survey?

Sept

What do marking techniques aid in determining

Population dynamics, movement patterns, behaviour

3 types of markinG?

Temporary, semi-permanent, permanent

Where do you place an ear tag?

Place on lower inner region where cartilage is heavier. This protects the tag and reduces chance of tearing the ear or tag

What is hot banding and freeze banding

Hot branding for horns of mountain sheep, pelts of seals (not used much today as they caused wounds and infection). Freeze [cryo] branding: more humane. Irons are supercooled in dry ice and methanol or liquid nitrogen, then applied to a shaved, washed area of hide. Process destroys pigment forming parts of hair follicles and regrowth is white hair.

What chemical shows up in feces and organs when comsumed.

Rhodamine B

What chemical is used to mark bones.

Tetracycline

How do you age a fawn by its hoof?

-2.5mm from hoof length, then ever 0.45mm is a day

Two techniques for locating fawns?

Grid search, spotlighting

What is break point for tracks

Break point” where the rounded pad turns upward = edge of minimum outline

What is the stride and what is the straddle of a track?

Stride is the distance between tracks on the same side, straddle is the distance between the right and left side tracks.

4-legged animal gaits include what

Walk, trot, lope, gallop, bound, and pronk [stot]

Who is who

Left feline right canine

Which is Bobcat which is Lynx

Left Lynx, right bobcat

Latin for Lyme disease

Lyme borreliosis

What are the usual vectors of lyme

"Ixodes" ticks

Latin for rabies

Hydrophobia

How is Hantavirus transmitted to humans

Kciked up in dust while sweeping rodent feces and urine

Parelaphostrongylus tenuis is latin for what

Brain worm

Winter tick latin?

Dermacentor albipictus

Papillomas, Fibromas are..

Warts, skin tumours

Main symptom of canine distemper

Crusty nose

Latin for tape worms?

Taenia krabbei, Taenia hydatigena

Latin for Mange?

Sarcoptes scabei

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