Publications

flavor avoidance learning and its implications in reducing strychnine baiting hazards to nontarget animals.	in reforested areas, underground strychnine baiting to control pocket gophers (thomomys mazama) poses a hazard to golden mantled ground squirrels (spermophilus lateralis) and yellow pine chipmunks (eutamias amoenus). we designed this study to assess whether: 1) chemical insensitivity to bitter tastes might explain the ingestion of strychnine; 2) pocket gophers would avoid four bitter-tasting compounds: quebracho (queb), sucrose octaacetate (soa), quinine hydrochloride (qhcl), and denatonium benz ...	1998	9817567
proximal cues of pocket gopher burrow plugging behavior: influence of light, burrow openings, and temperature.	burrow plugging is readily observed among mammals adapted for digging (i.e., fossorial mammals) as they create and maintain their burrows. we investigated the influence of light, burrow openings, and thermal environment as cues of pocket gopher (thomomys mazama, thomomys talpoides) behavior. when given free access to light and no light during artificial-burrow preference trials, both thomomys spp. consistently plugged (i.e., avoided) light treatments. burrow openings did not notably affect plugg ...	2005	15961128