Gender- and age-class-specific reactions to human disturbance in a sexually dimorphic ungulate

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Loehr, J, Kovanen, M, Carey, J, Högmander, H, Jurasz, C, Kärkkäinen, S, Suhonen, J, Ylönen, H
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2005
• Subjects: Yukon; Canada; Faro
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z05-162; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z05-162

According to optimality theory, an individual's characteristics should play a major part in determining antipredator strategies. We studied behavioural reactions to human presence of gender and age classes of 35 thinhorn sheep (Ovis dalli Nelson, 1884) in late winter 2001 in Faro, Yukon Territo...