American Badger Research Paper

...elk and other browsing animals behave differently when wolves are around. Instead of eating greenery down to the soil, they take a bite or two, look up to check for threats, and keep moving. The greenery can grow tall enough to reproduce.(578)

elk killed by wolves also provides vital food source for predators such as grizzlies and black bears and for scavengers such as coyotes and ravens.

This includes, the need for lumber in Canada and the need to transport oil. Transporting lumber and oil is resulting in polluted waters, and bears feeding on polluted fish. Deforestation is affecting Kermode Bears because of habitat loss and the need to transport the cut trees. In the future Kermode Bears could nearly be extinct because of the proposed Enbridge\Gateway pipeline that would transport oil from Alberta's oil sands through The Great Bear Rainforest, to Kitimat British Columbia. After the pipeline, the oil would be sent to market on large oil tankers, with a chance that the oil could be spilt.

The artic fox lives on the tundra. They are consumers. A consumer is an animal that eats other plants and animals. The artic fox and penguin eat meat. They are carnivores. Carnivores are meat eaters. Mush ox and caribou eat plants. Plant eaters are herbivores. They can eat up to 100 to 200

Since 1973, controlling badgers in Great Britain has been a political problem. Badgers are one of the most well known animals in Britain; hence the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 was designed to protect them (Natural England). However, tuberculosis was discovered in badgers as a result of Mycobacterium bovis (Muirhead et al., 1974). Till this day, some argue that badgers are a significant source of infection for cattle, which raises a concern for the society (Krebs, 1997). Therefore, it raises the issue of whether trials to test the efficacy of badger culling in control of bovine tuberculosis should be permitted.

White-tailed deer are large primary consumers or herbivores that feed on plants (primary producers). Their diet consists mainly of grasses, herbaceous plants, and fruits. Their diet changes according to the habitat and season. For instance, they feed on green plants such as grasses, forbs, crops, leaves, twigs, and buds during the summer and spring season (Curtis and Sullivan 2001). In the fall, they concentrate on nuts, acorns, and corns. They eat twigs and buds during the winter season.

The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) is the most widely dispersed mammal in North America and is the primary reservoir species for SNV (University of California Agricultural and Natural Resources 2013). Deer mice are nocturnal and are found throughout all types of habitats ranging from forests to scrublands, making this a very ubiquitous species that primarily feed on grains and seeds(University of California Agricultural and Natural Resources 2013). However deer mice are very adaptable animals that can change their diets to suit their environment and their diet can consist of invertebrates, fungi, fruits, and green vegetation. The typical lifespan of deer mice is 2 years and they typically do not breed during the winter, although in times of abundant food supply and warm temperatures they may breed year round with liter size varying from three to six young SNV (University of California Agricultural and Natural Resources 2013).

Even though whitetail deer can grow to large sizes they don't even eat meet to do it. Deer are strictly herbivores that don't even chew. A deer’s stomach consists of four chambers. Because of this, they can eat some poisonous mushrooms that are lethal to humans. However, deer mainly eat legumes, shoots, and members of the grass family. Deer use

American black bears are the most common bears found in North America. They can be seen in at least 40 of the 50 states, Canada, and part of Mexico. Florida and Louisiana each have their own subspecies of the traditional black bear that make up small sections of the entire population.

How would you like to walk around the desert and the mountains for days without food or water? In the past decades the big horn sheep are being killed day after day and is decreasing the population. In the 1990s there were 1.5-2 million big horn sheep, but now there are less than 70,000. Big horn sheep are dying in many ways, Hunters, Golden eagles, habitat loss, food loss and Bobcats.

They are found in the western and central United States, northern Mexico, and south-central Canada in certain areas. They also prefer prairies that are near woods with soft soil so they can dig for a verity amount of prey. They also live in burrows.The American badger has a white brown black coat to help it hide from predators another adaptation to fight off predators is that when their attacked, they release an unpleasant smell which might drive a predator away They also hiss when they feel threatened. Their fore-claws help them dig and help catch their prey. Another ironic thing is that sometimes when a badger goes into a den and try to capture its prey. A coyote will stay at the entrance in case the badger fails to capture its prey.They are omnivores so they eat both plant and animals. They eat rodents, deer and certain nesting birds. nesting birds. They also eat green beans, peas, mushrooms and other fungi and sunflower seeds.They are mostly nocturnal. But on sometimes they prow around during the day. Even though they are less active in the winter, they do not hibernate.

The Honey Badger has interesting habits and here are some of them. Usually the Honey Badger hunts alone, but during breeding season it may hunt in a pair. Honey Badgers are very intelligent animals and are one of the only ones able to use tools. A video filmed in the Moholoholo rehab centre shows two Honey Badgers escaping their walled pit with the use of sticks, a rake, heaps of mud, and stones. It attacks basically anything it sees and can survive snake bites.

The animals eat a variety of things in the Chernobyl area, but it is all radioactive. Toads eat stag beetles or worms and herons eat stag beetles (and other insects) fish, toads, and mice. Bobcats eat elk or roe deer and Short-eared owl eat rodents. Lynx eats roe deer, rodents, or birds and Raptor eats short-eared owls, rodents, fish, and fruits. Hedgehog eats snakes, berries, bird eggs or melons and moose eat leaves and twigs. Elk eats grass or pine trees and foxes eat fruits, grasses, birds, and rodents. wolves eat Przewalski horse, elk, moose, beavers account for 60% of the wolves diet.

1. Busy beavers are nature's architects, and they're constantly makinhabitats http://www.beaversnw.org/conservation.html for wildlife, including: mammals, fish, amphibians and even birds.

There were 9 classes of habitat used in the habitat selection analysis: Woods, Street, Shrub, Playfield, Garden, Freshwater, Coast, Building and Allotment. However, freshwater, coast and wood were unavailable to the school badgers so there was no data recorded within these areas so took no part in the habitat use and selection indices. Three of the radio points also