About the Authors

Florent Bled

florent.bled@gmail.com

Affiliation Carnivore Ecology Laboratory, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Savanna Summers

Affiliation Carnivore Ecology Laboratory, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Deborah Martell

Affiliation Carnivore Ecology Laboratory, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Tyler R. Petroelje

Affiliation Carnivore Ecology Laboratory, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Dean E. Beyer Jr

Affiliation Wildlife Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Marquette, Michigan, United States of America

Jerrold L. Belant

Affiliation Carnivore Ecology Laboratory, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLB DEB TRP. Performed the experiments: JLB TRP DEB DM. Analyzed the data: FB SS. Wrote the paper: FB SS DM TRP DEB JLB.