Canid Biology & Conservation Conference

(Tentative) Posters Programme


Poster Session I (Mon 17/Tues 18)

Poster Session II (Wed 19/Thurs 20)



Behavioural Ecology
Mon 17 / Tues 18 [8]

  • Energy Cost of Running in Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus), in Norway
    Eva Fuglei & Nils Are Øritsland
  • Energy Requirements and Local Distribution of Sympatric Chilla (Pseudalopex griseus) and Culpeo (P. culpaeus) Foxes in South America
    Jaime E. Jiménez & Warren E. Johnson
  • About Supplanting Interactions in Social Canids
    F. Javier de Miguel, Paloma Chaves Montoya, Raquel Monclús Burgoa & Isabel Barja
  • Effects of Social and Environmental Factors on Coyote Vocalizations: A) Spectrographic Analysis of Barks and Howls
    Brian R. Mitchell, Reginald H. Barrett & Michael M. Jaeger
  • Effects of Social and Environmental Factors on Coyote Vocalizations: B) Responses of Coyotes to Audio Playbacks
    Brian R. Mitchell, Reginald H. Barrett & Michael M. Jaeger
  • Howling Activity of Free-Ranging Wolves
    Sabina Nowak, Wlodzimierz Jedrzejewski, Krzysztof Schmidt, Jörn Theuerkauf, Robert W. Myslajek & Bogumila Jedrzejewska
  • Juvenile Dispersal in the Icelandic Arctic Fox Population
    Pall Hersteinsson
  • Proximate Explanations for Failed Pack Formation in Lycaon pictus
    E. Kim McCreery & Robert L. Robbins

Canid Behaviour
Mon 17 / Tues 18 [12]

  • High Placed Urination in Wolves (Canis lupus L.) in Captivity
    Isabel Barja & F. Javier de Miguel
  • Plant Selection for Scat Marking by Wolf
    Isabel Barja, F. Javier de Miguel & Felipe Bárcena
  • Selection of High Sites for Placing Scats by Wolf
    Isabel Barja, F. Javier de Miguel & Felipe Bárcena
  • Vocal Tract Anatomy and Vocal Behaviour in the New Guinea Singing Dog
    Mark Feinstein, Susan Prattis, Mauricio Solano & Lois Wetmore
  • Wolf Vocal Communication: Sources of Variation among Individuals in the Squeak
    Fred H. Harrington & Tanya Holt
  • Some Unusual Behaviors of the New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis hallstromi)
    Janice Koler-Matznick & I. Lehr Brisbin, Jr.
  • The Behaviour of Polar Wolves (Canis lupus arctos) Sharing an Enclosure with Brown Bears (Ursus arctos)
    Simone Nowak
  • The Ontogeny of Vocalisation in the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus f. familiaris) Compared to the Wolf (Canis lupus)
    Simone Nowak
  • A Comparative Study of Larynx Morphology and Howling Vocalizations in Five Canids (Genus Canis)
    Alessia A. Ortolani, Laurie K. Corbett, Mark H. Feinstein, & Ray P. Coppinger
  • Interaction Between Wolf and Large Predators in Russia
    Mikhail Vaisfeld
  • Biphonation in the Dhole Cuon alpinus Vocal Behaviour
    Elena Volodin
  • Vocal Repertoire in the Dhole Cuon alpinus in Captivity
    Ilya Volodin

Population Dynamics and Modelling
Mon 17 / Tues 18 [5]

  • Group Size and Allee Effect in the African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus): new insights through stage-structured population models
    Guillaume Chapron, Stéphane Legendre, Jean Clobert & Régis Ferrière
  • Wild Dog Population Dynamics in Kruger National Park, South Africa
    Harriet T. Davies, Michael G.L. (Gus) Mills, Anthony Maddock & Ian Wilkinson
  • Modelling of Wolf-Livestock Interactions in Spain: Proposed Methodology for Development of Policy Guidelines
    Deborah K. Kirby, Paula C.L. White & R. Ruiz
  • Dynamics of a Wolf (Canis lupus) Population in Turkmenistan
    Victor Lukarevskiy
  • Recovery of Ethiopian Wolf Packs after a Rabies Epizootic
    Jorgelina Marino & Claudio Sillero-Zubiri

Disease and Epidemiology
Mon 17 / Tues 18 [3]

  • Use of a Natural Emetic in Lycaon pictus
    Filippo Bassignani & Elena Carloni
  • Diseases of Canidae Species in Central Asia
    Natalya Marmazinskaya
  • Evaluation of Different Techniques For Capture and Anaesthesia of Painted Hunting Dogs
    Greg Rasmussen

Systematics, Paleontology and Morphology
Mon 17 / Tues 18 [10]

  • On Biometry and Sexual Dimorphism in Wolf
    Felipe Bárcena & Roberto Hermida
  • The New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis dingo hallstromi)
    I. Lehr Brisbin, Jr., Janice Koler-Matznick & Mark Feinstein
  • The Skull Morphology of the Ethiopian Wolf (Canis simensis)
    Ruth Dalton
  • Cranial Development in Wolf between Four and Ten Months of Age
    Roberto Hermida & Felipe Bárcena
  • Morphogenesis and Evolution of the Canid Auditory Bulla
    Dmitri V. Ivanoff
  • Some Data on Seasonal Variation in Wolf Pelage
    Sonia Lamas & Felipe Bárcena
  • Claw Retraction in Canids Susan Morris The Fossil Record of Canis (Carnivora: Canidae) in South America. Comments on the Systematic Status of Canis gezi
    Francisco Juan Prevosti
  • Phylogeny of Canidae: Inferences From Combined Morphological, Behavioural and Molecular Data
    Vera Ricánková & Jan Zrzavý
  • Is "Tanuki" a Separate Species?
    Midori Saeki & Kaarina Kauhala

Population Genetics
Mon 17 / Wed 18 [7]

  • Fecal DNA Sampling to Detect the Presence of Coyotes and Hybrids in the Red Wolf Recovery Zone
    Jennifer Adams, Lisette P. Waits & Arthur Beyer)
  • Development of Genetic Markers to Address Conservation Issues for the Dhole (Cuon alpinus)
    Arati Iyengar
  • DLA-DRB1, DQA1 and DQB1 Alleles in Alaskan Grey Wolves
    Lorna J. Kennedy, John M. Angles, George M. Happ, Annette Barnes, Stuart D. Carter, William E.R. Ollier & Wendy Thomson
  • Genetic Study on the Anatolian Shepherd Dog Based on 100 Microsatellite Loci
    Evren Koban, Vahdettin Altunok, Lounes Chikhi, Ayse Erguven & Inci Togan
  • Non-invasive Molecular Tracking of Colonizing Wolf Packs in the Western Italian Alps
    Vittorio Lucchini, E. Fabbri, Francesca Marucco, S. Ricci, Luigi Boitani & Ettore Randi
  • RAPD Fingerprinting and Relatedness Among Dog Breeds and Grey Wolves
    Seraphima Semyenova, Natalia Illarionova, Vasilii Vasilyev, Anna Shubkina & Aleksei Ryskov
  • Conservation Genetics of Wolves (Canis lupus) in Italy
    Ettore Randi & Vittorio Lucchini

Foraging and Population Ecology
Wed 19 / Thu 20 [18]

  • Estimated Diet of the Dhole or Asiatic Wild Dog (Cuon alpinus) in Kanha Tiger Reserve, Central India
    B. Bhaskar Acharya, Leon S Durbin & Asir J.T. Johnsingh
  • Transboundary Movements of Wolves in Latvia and Estonia: Results of the Pilot Study
    Zanete Andersone, Nikolai Laanetu, Robert Oetjen & Janis Ozolins
  • Ecology of a Wolf pack in a Semi-Agricultural Landscape in Tuscany, Central Italy
    Paolo Ciucci, Luca Artoni, Edoardo Tedesco & Luigi Boitani
  • Spatial Ecology of the Culpeo Fox (Pseudalopex culpaeus) in the Highland Desert of Northern Chile
    Jaime E. Jiménez, Mario Parada & Pamela Cortés
  • The Home Range of Raccoon Dog in Relation to other Carnivores
    Katja Kiviaho & Kaarina Kauhala
  • Foraging Behaviour of Coyotes in Prairie Dog Towns of Northwestern Mexico
    Rurik List & David W. Macdonald
  • Winter Habitat Selection of Wolves in the Western Alps
    Francesca Marucco, Simone Ricci, Tommaso Galli, Lorenzo Manghi & Luigi Boitani
  • Selection of Marking Sites by Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes L.) in Spain
    Raquel Monclús Burgoa, F. Javier de Miguel, Isabel Barja & Felipe Bárcena
  • Diet and Habitat Use in Jackal, Jungle Cat, and Caracal in a Semi-arid Region of India
    Shomita Mukherjee, S.P. Goyal & Asir J.T. Johnsingh)
  • The Diet of Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) In Two Areas of Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês (NW Portugal)
    Nuno Miguel Negrões Soar, José Carlos Lopes de Carvalho & Pedro Alexandre Teixeira Gomes
  • Bat-eared Foxes as Predators on Harvester Termites
    Jan A.J. Nel
  • Blackbacked Jackal Social Organization in Relation to Food Dispersion on a Desert Coast
    Jan A.J. Nel, Rudi Loutit & Rod Braby
  • The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes): Its Abundance and Diet in North East Ireland
    Declan O`Mahony, William I. Montgomery, Murray Grant & Jonathan Reynolds
  • Seasonal Movement and Home Rrange of Sierra Nevada Red Fox in Northern California
    John D. Perrine & Reginald H. Barrett
  • Movements and Habitat Ecology of the Raccoon Dog in Japan Midori Saeki Do Food Resources Affect Home Range Size in Coyotes?
    Jorge Servín, Carmen Huxley & Elias Chacón
  • Diet of the Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) in a Private Natural Reserve in South-eastern Brazil
    Joaquim A. Silva & S.A. Talamoni
  • Ecology of Crab-eating foxes in Caatinga, a Dry Forest in North-eastern Brazil
    Frank Wolff

Conflicts & Control
Wed 19 / Thu 20 [10]

  • Dhole Depredation and its Consequences for the Carnivore Community in Arunachal Pradesh, North East India
    V. Narendra Babu & Arun Venkataraman
  • Managing the Wolf (Canis lupus) Expansion in Western Europe: Conservation and Control Strategies
    Guillaume Chapron, Stéphane Legendre, Jean Clobert, Régis Ferrière & Robert G. Haight
  • Resolving Problem of Child-lifting by Wolves in the State of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India
    N.P.S. Chauhan
  • Relationships Between Sechuran Fox (Pseudalopex sechurae) and People in Peru: Threats and Uses
    Daniel Cossíos
  • Stakeholder Participation in Large Carnivore Conservation
    Nina Fascione
  • The Relationships between Humans and Wolves in the Montesinho Natural Park (North-east of Portugal): From Destruction to Conservation
    João Pedro Galhano Alves
  • The Role of Predation by Wolves (Canis lupus pallipes) and Jackals (Canis aureus) on Blackbuck (Antelope cervicapra) in Velavadar National Park, India
    Yadvendradev Jhala
  • An Analysis of the Costs of Red Foxes to Agricultural Interests in Britain
    Rebecca Moberly, Piran White, Charlotte Webbon, Philip Baker & Stephen Harris
  • Love, Hate and Lunacy: Responses to the Wolf in the Middle Ages and Present Day
    Aleks Pluskowski
  • The Golan Wolf Study: Ecology, Food habits and Livestock Depredation
    Alon Reichmann, Dror Pevzner, Rachel Gavrieli, Lia Court, Peretz Gilady, & Eyal Harel

Reproductive Ecology
Wed 19 / Thu 20 [2]

  • The Influence of Social Factors on Reproduction in Red Foxes
    Caroline Henry, Marie-Lazarine Poulle & Jean-Jacques Roeder
  • Breeding and Parturition Seasons With Growth Rate of Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) Pups
    Jorge Servín, Susan Lindsay-Lindaker & Peter Siminski

Conservation Tools and Practice
Wed 19 / Thu 20 [7]

  • Wolf Habituation: Friend or Foe to Wolf Recovery?
    Diane K. Boyd
  • Personality Assessment as a Predictor of Survival Rates of Captive-Bred Swift Fox
    Samantha Bremner, Robert W. Elwood & Paulo A. Prodöhl
  • Swift Fox Vocalisations: their Possible Application to Population Censuses
    Safi Darden
  • Developing a Technique for Attracting Bush Dogs (Speothos venaticus) in the Wild
    Karen E. DeMatteo, Gerald L. Zuercher, Kelli Smith & Ingrid J. Porton
  • Landscape Study to Choose Suitable Areas for Mexican Wolf Reintroduction in Mexico
    Jorge Servín, Enrique Martinez-Meyer & Towsend A. Peterson
  • The Analysis of the Human Attitudes for the Wolf Conservation: The case of Sierra de la Culebra (Spain)
    Montserrat Soria & João Pedro Galhano Alves
  • Asking People about Bush Dogs: The Use of Ecological Informants and Insights on Speothos venaticus Natural History
    Matthew J. Swarner

Conservation Policy and Planning
Wed 19 / Thu 20 [6]

  • Exhibit Space Availability in North American Zoos: a Limiting Factor in Success of Programs for Canid and Hyaenid Species
    Karen L. Bauman, Kathryn M. Holden, Ingrid J. Porton & Jack Grisham
  • Ecological Economics of Wolf - Livestock Conflict in the French Alps
    Guillaume Chapron, Stéphane Legendre, Jean Clobert & Régis Ferrière
  • A National Network to Monitor Natural Wolf Recovery in France: Patterns and Rate
    Christophe Duchamp,Thierry Dahier & Benoit Lequette
  • Problems of Wolf Protection in Poland
    Sabina Nowak & Robert W. Myslajek
  • Wolf Conservation in Europe
    Fernando Palacios
  • Environmental and Human Factors Affecting Maned Wolf Conservation in Argentina
    Lucia Soler & Jean-Marie Carenton

Distribution of the Canidae
Wed 19 / Thu 20 [5]

  • The Wolf in Turkey: Its Status and the Conservation Challenges
    Ö. Emre Can
  • Forest Dwelling African Wild Dogs in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
    Guy Dutson & Claudio Sillero-Zubiri
  • The Canidae Species in Uzbekistan
    Natalya Marmazinskaya & Bakhtiyor Mardonov
  • Distribution of Conservation Areas For Wolf In The Carpathian Mountains
    Valeria Salvatori, Luigi Boitani, & Fabio Corsi
  • Distribution and Conservation of the Wolf in Saudi Arabia: Results of a Preliminary Survey
    Iacopo Sinibaldi, Luigi Boitani, Mohamed Sandouka & Iyad Nader