Response of desert bighorn sheep to human harassment: Management implications
King MM and Workman GW. 1987. Response of desert bighorn sheep to human harassment: Management implications. Pages 74-85. In Author unknown: Transactions of the 51st North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference. Wildlife Management Institute Publications Department. Washington D.C.
Two populations of bighorn sheep in Utah were studied to determine response to human harassment. Behavior was recorded to determine group wariness and activity budgets under harassed and unharassed conditions. Behavioral response of desert bighorn to encounters with humans were more severe, and thus more energy costly, for animals that had been historically exposed to relatively high levels of human disturbance.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- King, Michael; Workman, Gar
- Units
- DEVA , JOTR
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), activity budget, Animal Behavior, Artiodactyla (Even-Toed Ungulates), Bovidae (Bovids), Distribution (Biodiversity), Human Disturbance, Mammalia (Mammals), Ovis canadensis (Bighorn Sheep), Presence (Biodiversity), Taxa Links To Datasets, Taxa Links To References, Wildlife Management