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| Sharma, S.; Jhala, Y.; Sawarkar, V.B. | |
| Gender discrimination of tigers by using their pugmarks | |
| 2003 Wildlife Society Bulletin (31): 258-264 | |
We evaluated gender discrimination of tigers (Panthera tigris) using the shape of their pugmarks. Discriminiant Function Analysis (DFA) and logistic regression were used to discriminate gender of 13 known tigers from nine easy-to-obtain pugmark measurements. Both multivariate techniques were quite accurate in discriminating genders; the most accurate and parsimonious model was DGA with parameters of pugmark length and width. Our technique can be used to acquire sex-ratio data of tiger populations in areas where pugmarks are easy to obtain. |
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