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Article History

Received: 30 January 2018

Accepted: 24 July 2018

First Online: 27 September 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics of all capture and handling procedures were approved by the Mississippi State University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (#09–004). Also, animal capture and handling procedures followed guidelines established by the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Society of Mammalogists []. Details of capture and handling procedures are described in Stillfried and colleagues ([]; black bears), Svoboda and colleagues ([]; bobcats), Etter & Belant ([]; coyotes) and Petroelje and colleagues ([]; wolves).

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