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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>James O. Hastings</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>S. C. Kohn</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>S.H. Allen</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1987</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Coyote (Canis latrans) families studied in North Dakota during 1976 to 1978 contained three or more adults during the spring-summer season, and they occupied large contiguous, non-overlapping territories. Coyote territories averaged 61 km2 during the spring-summer season and 30 km2 during fall-winter season. Three of four families occupied territories that were similar in size for two consecutive years; however, boundaries changed within individual families when one or both alpha adults were killed. All coyotes replacing dead alpha adults were 1 year old.</dc:description>
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  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:title>Composition and stability of coyote families and territories in North Dakota</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>