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 |
See Table S1 for details on how each metric of prey behavior was calculated.
Insignificant Wilcoxon test's (No Change).
Arrow indicates a significant difference between the paired pre-phase and treatment phase (assessed using a Wilcoxon test) and the direction of the change.