Unreliable Knowledge about Economic Impacts of Large Carnivores on Bovine Calves

• Published in: The Journal of Wildlife Management
• Main Author: Mark Hebblewhite
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Wildlife Society 2011
• Subjects: Sommers; Canis lupus; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.206

Sommers et al. (2010) reported that recolonizing predators increased bovine calf mortality rates in the Upper Green River Cattle Allotment in western Wyoming. However, Sommers et al. (2010) failed to consider multiple competing hypotheses explaining calf loss rates, increasing the likelihood that th...