Abstract
A 3-year study of a red squirrel population revealed that the adult sex ratio was biased towards males. There is no evidence that the skewed sex ratio was prejudiced by sampling biases due to sexual differences in mobility, observability, trappability, or habitat use. The tertiary juvenile sex ratio was even and therefore not the cause of the biased adult sex ratio. The data suggest that the skewed sex ratio may be the result of differential mortality. This is consistent with other reports of higher female than male mortality in red squirrels.
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