Publication: Subterranean caching of domestic cow (Bos taurus) carcasses by American badgers (Taxidea taxus) in the Great Basin Desert, Utah
dc.contributor.coauthor | Frehner, Ethan H. | |
dc.contributor.coauthor | Buechley, Evan R. | |
dc.contributor.coauthor | Christensen, Tara | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics | |
dc.contributor.kuauthor | Şekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı | |
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstitute | College of Sciences | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-09T23:14:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.description.abstract | Camera traps documented 2 solitary American badgers (Taxidea taxus) independently caching juvenile domestic cow (Bos taurus) carcasses during late winter 2016 in the Great Basin Desert of Utah. One carcass was partially buried and the other was entirely buried. Both badgers constructed dens alongside their cache, where they slept, fed, and spent up to 11 days continuously underground. They abandoned the sites 41 and 52 days after initial discovery. While badgers are known to scavenge and to cache small food items underground, this is the first evidence of an American badger caching an animal carcass larger than itself. | |
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dc.description.indexedby | Scopus | |
dc.description.issue | 1 | |
dc.description.openaccess | YES | |
dc.description.publisherscope | International | |
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEu | N/A | |
dc.description.sponsorship | The National Science Foundation generously supported this project in the form of a Graduate Research Fellowship to E.R. Buechley Field methods were approved by the University of Utah Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. We thank the Bureau of Land Management for permission to conduct this study on public land, Brown Rex Dairy for donating calf carcasses, and undergraduate students at the University of Utah who assisted in all aspects of this project, especially Ethan Slocum, Hector Castillo, Miranda Castillo, and Dylan Harding. | |
dc.description.volume | 77 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3398/064.077.0114 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1527-0904 | |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85018933585 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.3398/064.077.0114 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/10163 | |
dc.keywords | Ecology | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Brigham Young University | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Western North American Naturalist | |
dc.subject | Biodiversity conservation | |
dc.subject | Ecology | |
dc.title | Subterranean caching of domestic cow (Bos taurus) carcasses by American badgers (Taxidea taxus) in the Great Basin Desert, Utah | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
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