Health status of red deer and roe deer in Gorski kotar, Croatia

• Main Authors: Josip Kusak, Silvio Špičić, Vedran Slijepčević, Sanja Bosnić, Ranka Rajković Janje, Sanja Duvnjak, Magda Sindičić, Dario Majnarić, Željko Cvetnić, Đuro Huber
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Draga; Canis lupus; Lynx; Lynx lynx lynx
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.375.4883; http://www.vef.unizg.hr/vetarhiv/papers/2012-82-1-6.pdf

To determine the general health status of the main prey species of wolf (Canis lupus) and lynx (Lynx lynx), we examined 66 cervids (41 red deer- Cervus elaphus and 25 roe deer- Capreolus capreolus), shot in two hunting areas of Gorski kotar during the hunting season in 2007. We collected a total of...