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The decrease in number and range of North American large carnivores, has often all owed smaller carnivores ( < 15 kg) to fill the role of the top predator. This has favored some carnivores such as coyotes (<em>Canis latrans</em>), who have expanded their distribut…

As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, wildlife species will have to adjust to living in heterogenous landscapes altered by human development, or risk becoming extirpated from them. For carnivores, public attitudes towards them can influence where they can live and how big…

Throughout the southeastern United States, mammalian carnivore populations continue to evolve through dynamic ecological processes. My objectives were to summarize parameters for bobcats, coyotes, gray fox, raccoon, and opossum, subsequently relating these parameters to wild tur…