Survival of White-tailed Deer in Wisconsin's Chronic Wasting Disease Zone

摘要: Abstract We analyzed the survival rates of 160 Odocoileus virginianus (White-tailed Deer) over 6 years in area Wisconsin's highest prevalence chronic wasting disease. Survival was very high for all age/sex classes and varied by season but not year. When we omitted hunting mortality, yearlings adults had similar annual survival, with males (0.83–0.89) slightly lower than females (0.91). However, including mortality reduced yearling adult to 0.72 0.41, 0.88 0.83, respectively. also observed seasonal patterns, characterized across sex age during rut (10 October 31 December), which includes period maximum hunting. Six mortalities (8.3%) were associated disease, one deer that died from find no evidence CWD substantially increasing duration our ...