Comments(3) The highlight today was watching Crooked Tail interact with a young male and calf….with a group of five north of the Lodge in the cleared juniper area….more later
Comments(1) This is the day that the males were switched….Renee will fill in the details later
Comments(0) He was in quarantine.
He was introduced to the group on 5/7/08
He was removed on: 7/10/08 and returned to quarantine until a companion could be identified to move him to retirement
Comments(1) From Lauren’s notes, it appears there is another new calf, which had a yellow tagged dam, and was tagged by Adam….lets do more detective work on this!….
8/23/08 ?663O.58?.7/08 following F58Y, who licked calf (does not necessarily mean it is her calf)
Comments(4) Adam started this post, to note that a new male calf was tagged July 29, 2008. See Lauren’s notes for more details. Please add comments here as additional observations are made on this individual.
—Jane
Comments(1) Adam wrote: “As you know from our past conversations, naming animals with tags just confuses things. I’m already trying to keep track of a tag number, studbook number and accession number for each animal.
Throwing a fourth identifier in there (especially one that has no significance to the record keeping) complicates things. I know the waterbuck aren’t well ID’d, but the ones who do have IDs, should be edocumented as such. If you want to used Douglas’ name, that’s fine, but let’s put 42 Yellow in there somewhere too. Same with Toby and 55 Yellow. It will make going back over all this information in the future much less confusing.”
Comments(1) Lets keep track here of when and where we observe females nursing (ACTION ITEM).
1/4-11, 2008: Slit ear (F61Y), No tag (ribs showing), Natural notch.
1/26/2008: Slit ear (F61Y)
3/1/2008: Slit ear (F61Y) and F58Y
5//2008: untagged female with new calf
8/23/08: F545B with new calf (left light eye)
Comments(1) We are thinking of counting proximity, aggressive interaction, courtship interaction, and following/leading by Lucifer. This is Renee’s directed study project for spring 2008.
Here are sample data sheets: proximity data form