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| Flowers, C. | |
| Searching for the One True Cat | |
| 1989 National Wildlife: 24-28 | |
For nine years, teams of biologists and trackers have been collaring Florida panthers with radio-transmitters. The work, part of a federal endangered species recovery plan, aims to identify existing panther populations and habitat. At the present time, 33 cats have been captured and released, for the most part in the Everglades/Big Cypress Swamp region of South Florida. By radio monitoring, biologists learn more about how panthers live. Relations between predator and prey, for example, are being illuminated by a parallel study of radio-collared whitetail deer: a roving male panther, may kill one deer every four days, cating only the choicest parts; a nursing female stays with her kill for up to a week, devouring every morsel. |
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