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Sheep
Pet depredation
Goats
Cattle
Horses
Poultry
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
7.7
15.4
Percent
42.9
57.1
64.3
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Figure 6. Percent of agencies who reported these as common species involved
in cougar depredations, as reported in a survey of North American wildlife
agencies, 2008.
When responding to depredations, agencies used various approaches, most of which
resulted in the removal of the cougar involved (Fig. 7). When asked about the personnel
that responded in the field, most agencies said a conservation officer (86%) followed by
Wildlife Services (64%) and a biologist (50%) (Fig. 8). Forty percent of agencies
indicated that the public had some influence on subsequent actions taken by their agency
following a depredation (for example, the reporting party desires to kill the animal vs.
relocate). However, 56% of agencies did not relocate cougars involved in depredation.
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