Evaluation of capture and marking methods for wild boar
Abstract
In free living wild boars there exists no information about the mortality rate of young animals nor about the stability of group composition over time. Even though these data are essential for economical game management as well, there are hardly any reliable records of hunting enclosures. Having more substantiated state of knowledge about these topics feeding stations and shooting plan could be adapted. For gathering that data set it would be necessary to caught and to mark the animals. However previous wild boar projects turned out to have usually problems with catching or with marking. Consequently the sample sizes were small. The aim of our study is to test different methods for trapping, anesthesia darting, marking (by ear tags and by various collars for GPS transmitters). The verification will be conducted in collaboration with the "Gut Waldhof" in Gaaden (Lower Austria).
GPS Telemetry cage trap immobilisation
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Project staff
Alfred Frey-Roos
Dr.rer.nat. Alfred Frey-Roos
alfred.frey-roos@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-83224
Project Leader
01.02.2010 - 31.12.2010
BOKU partners
External partners
Waldgut Gaaden
Ing. Thomas Fröschl
partner