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Subterranean caching of domestic cow (Bos taurus) carcasses by American badgers (Taxidea taxus) in the Great Basin Desert, Utah

dc.contributor.coauthorFrehner, Ethan H.
dc.contributor.coauthorBuechley, Evan R.
dc.contributor.coauthorChristensen, Tara
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics
dc.contributor.kuauthorŞekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Sciences
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:14:28Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractCamera 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.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.sponsorshipThe 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.volume77
dc.identifier.doi10.3398/064.077.0114
dc.identifier.issn1527-0904
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3398/064.077.0114
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/10163
dc.keywordsEcology
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBrigham Young University
dc.relation.ispartofWestern North American Naturalist
dc.subjectBiodiversity conservation
dc.subjectEcology
dc.titleSubterranean caching of domestic cow (Bos taurus) carcasses by American badgers (Taxidea taxus) in the Great Basin Desert, Utah
dc.typeJournal Article
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