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.
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1 January 2009
Effectiveness of Vaginal-Implant Transmitters for Locating Elk Parturition Sites
Andrea E. Barbknecht,
W. Sue Fairbanks,
Jared D. Rogerson,
Eric J. Maichak,
Laura L. Meadows
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Journal of Wildlife Management
Vol. 73 • No. 1
January 2009
Vol. 73 • No. 1
January 2009
Abortion
birth site
calving behavior
Cervus elaphus
elk
parturition
radiotelemetry