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Coyote, Canis latrans
Coyote, Canis latrans

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Images and Illustrations

Figure 1 by Emily Oseas Routman.

Figure 6 adapted from a USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services illustration by Renee Lanik, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.


Acknowledgments

Much of the information and several of the figures for this chapter were adapted from the SID Sheep Production Handbook, Predator Damage Control chapter, published by the American Sheep Industry Association, Inc. (1990) and various publications authored by F. R. Henderson, J. S. Green, W. F. Andelt, G. E. Connolly, and D. A. Wade. The section on economics of damage and control was adapted from Andelt (1987).

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