Sentences with phrase «skunk populations»

Skunk populations on both islands have been fluctuating in recent years, apparently in response to a complex dynamic involving island foxes and golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), and their future trajectories are uncertain (Jones et al. 2008).

Results from our comparisons of genetic diversity in island and mainland spotted skunk populations correspond with results from studies of island and mainland populations of foxes (Aguilar et al. 2004; Wayne et al. 1991) and deer mice (Ashley and Wills 1987; Gill 1980).

Allelic richness and heterozygosity in island spotted skunk populations was approximately 30 % lower than that found in mainland localities or subspecies.

Action has been taken to try and increase skunk populations on the islands.

Skunk populations have more recently shown a remarkable recovery, and as of 2011 approximately 3,000 skunks were marked and counted during population monitoring.

The Village of Vernon Hills and the Vernon Hills Park District are partnering with homeowners to reduce the overall Skunk population within the Village.

The current drought as well as the increase in skunk population is considered to be two very influencing factors in the rise of rabies cases being seen in the community.

[1] During the 1990s, the island skunk population saw an increase due to reduced competition from their natural competitor, the island fox.

Not exact matches

Once again we get an animal population where all the species work together instead of eating each other, and there is even the possibility of interspecies sex, when a human's house cat falls in love with Stella the skunk (Wanda Sykes).

It can also infect foxes, wolves, coyotes, raccoons, skunks, and ferrets and often this is how it gets back into the pet population.

Distemper affects other animals as well; raccoons, coyotes, wolves, foxes, ferrets, skunks, weasels, mink, badgers, hyenas, and jackals can also catch the disease and a population of lions in Africa has been decimated by it.

By «regulating» smaller predators like foxes, raccoons, skunks, badgers, and opossums through competition and direct killing, they have a significant positive impact on rodent control and water fowl / songbird populations.

Fresno's population of wild animals within its borders includes foxes, raccoons, opossums, squirrels, rats, skunks, coyotes, snakes, pigeons, and geese to name a few.

Expansion of skunk foraging to sea caves is likely a result of their substantial population increase following decline of foxes.

The two species are in competition for resources and the Island Skunk's diet became more omnivorous in the 1990s due to a decrease in Island Fox populations.

The genetic variation between mainland skunks and those on the islands are enough to cause researchers to propose that the taxonomic classification of the skunks as S. g. amphiala, should be reconsidered and that each island population be considered a separate subspecies or even a new species separate from the mainland one.

On Santa Rosa Island, skunks are marked and counted during annual population monitoring for island foxes, and as of 2011 there were approximately 3,000 skunks on Santa Rosa Island.

The skunk is only currently found on two islands off the southern coast of California (Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island, where its occurrence was once thought to be rare but recently experienced a population surge in the 1990s).

The skunks most direct competitor for resources, the island fox, had also been exhibiting a population decline which would result in less competition for the resource specific island skunk.

Spotted skunk and weasel populations den and cover usage in northeast Iowa.

Skunks on Santa Cruz Island may be nearing or even exceeding carrying capacity, and the future of the population and its effects on the endangered island fox remain unclear.

For spotted skunks we found levels of genetic differentiation between the 2 island populations that were roughly equivalent to that between island and mainland localities, suggesting that island populations have been isolated from each other for about as long as they have been isolated from the mainland.

Island skunks might have retained the latifrons - like characters because they lacked sufficient genetic variation (Van Gelder 1959, 1965), which is required for populations to evolve in response to environmental change (Reed and Frankham 2003).

This uncertainty, coupled with an insular distribution and genetic distinctness, warrants heightened vigilance for both populations of island spotted skunks.

We used 8 microsatellite loci to investigate the distribution of genetic variation within and among populations of spotted skunks from 8 localities (the 2 islands and 6 mainland localities), representing 4 subspecies.

Another indication of a heavy grub population is birds, skunks, armadillos and other animals — depending on the part of country they're in — feeding on grubs in the lawn.