{"id":8415,"date":"2017-06-14T13:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:13:40","slug":"eat-me-bobby-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/14\/eat-me-bobby-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Me, Bobby D."},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Edmonton Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Older female elk ‘virtually bulletproof’ as they learn to avoid hunters<\/h1>\n

MICHELLE LEPAGE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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After seven years of studying the movements and behaviours of female elk, University of Alberta researchers discovered they become \u201cvirtually bulletproof\u201d as they age.<\/p>\n

\u201cElk learn to become shy as they get older,\u201d said University of Alberta biologist Mark Boyce.\u00a0\u201cThey\u00a0hunker down in the deep forest and stay in rugged terrain. Those types of behaviours were very effective (for survival) in heavily hunted areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boyce and two former post-doctoral fellows used radio collars fitted with GPS technology to track elk in southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia between 2007 and 2012.<\/p>\n

In their study, published Wednesday, they found female elk learned behaviours that helped them better avoid hunters with each hunting season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bold elk move the most, are the most aggressive and will bolt out into the open. Those elk died at a high rate.\u201d said Boyce. \u201cAs they age, they tend to become shy, more savvy, learn to avoid roads.\u201d<\/p>\n

While some elk started out shy, most learned to adopt the shy behaviours.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe magic number is 10,\u201d said Boyce. \u201cAfter this age threshold, female elk become almost bulletproof, virtually invulnerable to hunting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from The Edmonton Journal Older female elk ‘virtually bulletproof’ as they learn to avoid hunters MICHELLE LEPAGE After seven years of studying the movements and behaviours of female elk, University of Alberta researchers discovered they become \u201cvirtually bulletproof\u201d as they age. \u201cElk learn to become shy as they get older,\u201d said University of Alberta biologist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}