Abstract
Mammalian predators were known to have killed only one bird during 4,745 blind-mornings of watching greater prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) on their booming grounds on two study areas in central Wisconsin through 21 springs (1939-63). A total of 179 incidents involving mammals was observed. Prairie chickens were disturbed most by people, and more by nonindigenous dogs and livestock than by native foxes and deer. Factors which seemed to contribute to alarm reac- tions were large size, speedy approach, closeness, and length of stay. The birds commonly evaded an approaching mammal simply by walking aside; when flushed, they generally flew only a short distance and never in the panic flight often elicited by raptors.
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