Also the information is not aimed at or directed to captive husbandry. Its also not broad, that is, its not about many or several aspects of a population. is simply following an adult individual and recording what it does while being followed.
If you really want to get me going, talk about some of the re-introduction attempts going on now by me. They spend millions of dollars, and act like total slap arse kids without a bit of usable knowledge. And its all about dismissing behavior. They caught a number of adult bighorns by Yuma, and released them north of Tucson. Helicopters chasing them down, tranquilizer guns, cages, trucks etc. Then simple let them go into the new mountain range. about half are dead already, lions killed them, so lets kill the lions, makes sense right? Dang theres a lot of lions. The public is sick of game and fish killing lions, as am I. The reality is, its not about the lions. Lions occurred where the bighorns use to live. To me its appalling how ignorant people can be. These animals are not windup toys they have a brain. they learn their habitat. As with snakes, people, dogs, etc, learning is done when young. The animals in a habitat have learned the habitat. They learn where to hide, where to feed, when to feed and where to run, etc. Where they are successful, is based on a continuum of learning and teaching of offspring. OK so what would I do, hmmmm I would dumb it down a lot. I would set up captive breeding enclosures in the areas they want the animals to live, then allow the offspring to venture out(hack out) There will still be losses, but not to the supporting adults. dang rant over(for now), the point I am making is, we are not as smart as you think. If your think about it, its pretty naïve to think you can captive an adult in one area release it in another and have it simply carry on.

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