Re: Measuring carnivore population with Zn-65

[Dan Burnstein <npro1@ziplink.net>]

You might also look at Tom Clancy's book, Rainbow 6, for ideas on capturing 'larger'
carnivores. <g>  I think he was describing an ebola like virus.

Jim Graham wrote:

> Dick King wrote:
>
> >   Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:44:45 +0100
> >   From: CCONTE@correu.gencat.es
> >   To: <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> >   Subject: Measuring carnivore population with Zn-65
> >   Message-ID: <0056510004100008000002L182*@MHS>
> >
> >   Does anyone of you know anything about the mesure of little carnivore
> >   populations with a method which involves catching one or more individuals from a
> >   population and injecting them with the isotope Zn-65?
> >
> >   Any help will be apreciatted.
> >
> >   Carmen Conte
> >   SCAR - Generalitat de Catalunya
> >   cconte@correu.gencat.es
> >
> > You capture and inject say 100 individuals, and let them go.  Then you come
> > back a month later and capture 100 individuals.  If, say, 10% of the
> > individuals from the second population are tagged then the total population is
> > 100 / 10% = 1000, over the relevant area of mixing.
> >
> > -dk
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> You might try to get a book called Capture, Recapture. I don't have the referance in
> front of me, but I think it was published through LANL. It addresses this for animals
> that are tagged and several different ways to determine population density depending
> on capture and recapture methods.
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