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. 2010 Aug 4;5(8):e11954. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011954

Table 1. Across all individuals, elk and cattle consistently changed some of their behavior in response to wolf presence (treatment phase) compared to wolf absence (pre- treatment and post- treatment phases) within elk home ranges and cattle pastures in southwest Alberta, Canada during 2004–2007.

Metric1 Species Movement rate Head up Path sinuosity Distance to neighbors Terrain ruggedness index Slope Distance to forest cover Number of wolf visits
Wolf within cattle pasture NC2 NC 3 NC NC NC 78
Wolf within elk home range NC N/A N/A NC 72
1

See Table S1 for details on how each metric of prey behavior was calculated.

2

Insignificant Wilcoxon test's (No Change).

3

Arrow indicates a significant difference between the paired pre-phase and treatment phase (assessed using a Wilcoxon test) and the direction of the change.