Sentences with phrase «using radio collars»

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1) Facilitate safe off - label use of existing vaccines — Support collaboration between the zoological community and conservationists in the field to determine the safety as well as efficacy of existing distemper vaccines that could be, at a minimum, administered opportunistically to endangered wild carnivores whenever they are being handled (e.g. during radio - collaring exercises or when being translocated to mitigate human - wildlife conflict).

Leandro Silveira, president of the Jaguar Conservation Fund, said the big cats used to be persecuted by cattle ranchers, but his research on radio - collared animals has shown that the cats are able to prowl through cane thickets and find refuge in vegetated watercourses.

His team put radio collars on the animals, injected them with water with heavy hydrogen and oxygen atoms so these elements could be traced, recorded the animals» behaviors, and collected their feces to check for how fast those atoms were used, an indicator of metabolic rate.

And we used to put a little radio collar on the bait so we knew where the tiger was sitting with the bait.

The authors of the present study used field observations and GPS radio collars to track 26 mountain lions in and around the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles.

The eyelet end was connected to the original radio, by a screw on it's metal collar (the same collar I'm using to fit the new radio in).

While electronic fencing use radio, not electrical collars, the cautions needed to protect your dog during, and even more importantly preceding, electrical storms are pretty much the same.

Each refurbished collar costs $ 220, a 33 % savings over typical radio collar costs and keeps a used collar out of landfills.

An innovative use of radio collars has allowed researchers to gauge the long - distance swimming skills of polar bears in the Arctic Ocean waters north of Alaska.