Re-Evaluating Neonatal-Age Models for Ungulates: Does Model Choice Affect Survival Estimates?

• Troy W. Grovenburg ,

  * E-mail: troy.grovenburg@sdstate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

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• Kevin L. Monteith,

  Affiliation Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

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• Christopher N. Jacques,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, United States of America

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• Robert W. Klaver,

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Christopher S. DePerno,

  Affiliation Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Todd J. Brinkman,

  Affiliation Institute of Arctic Biology and Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

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• Kyle B. Monteith,

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

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• Sophie L. Gilbert,

  Affiliation Institute of Arctic Biology and Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

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• Joshua B. Smith,

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

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• Vernon C. Bleich,

  Affiliation Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, California Department of Fish and Game, Bishop, California, United States of America

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• Christopher C. Swanson,

  Affiliation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kulm, North Dakota, United States of America

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• Jonathan A. Jenks

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

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