Relationships of wild turkey : social and spatial behavior to management / Carl H. Thomas.
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TextPublication details: Stillwater, OK : Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1955.Description: vii, 65 leaves ; 28 cmSubject(s): Online resources: Abstract: Naturalists have become increasingly interested in the problem of social and spatial behavioral interrelationships. Little recognition has yet been given to the possible pertinence of these behavior patterns to wildlife management practice. This investigation is concerned mainly with fatures of social and space behavior of the wild turkey, which may be of particular pertinence to wildlife management practice. Direct field observation of three flocks of Rio Grande wild turkeys (Meleagris gallapavo intermodia) on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Comanche County, Oklahoma, served as the basic approach to this investigation.This investigation reveals that the wild turkey flock apparently lives on a discrete homestead area. The flock itself also appears to be a discrete population unit as against a group of freely intermingling individuals. It is suggested, furthermore, that the combined social and spatial behavior pattern apparently characteristic of the wild turkey operates as a s
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Thesis(M.S.)--Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1955.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-65).
Naturalists have become increasingly interested in the problem of social and spatial behavioral interrelationships. Little recognition has yet been given to the possible pertinence of these behavior patterns to wildlife management practice. This investigation is concerned mainly with fatures of social and space behavior of the wild turkey, which may be of particular pertinence to wildlife management practice. Direct field observation of three flocks of Rio Grande wild turkeys (Meleagris gallapavo intermodia) on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Comanche County, Oklahoma, served as the basic approach to this investigation.This investigation reveals that the wild turkey flock apparently lives on a discrete homestead area. The flock itself also appears to be a discrete population unit as against a group of freely intermingling individuals. It is suggested, furthermore, that the combined social and spatial behavior pattern apparently characteristic of the wild turkey operates as a s