Abstract
Animal rescue centres release large numbers of captive-bred, rehabilitated or translocated animals into
the wild annually but little is known about their post-release survival and behaviour. We developed a
novel and innovative coupling of traditional radio-tags with new GPS loggers to track hand-reared
Irish hare Lepus timidus hibernicus leverets after release into the wild. Cyanoacrylate SuperGlue®
proved a poor fixative with two out of three leverets managing to detach their tags within 24 hours.
Nevertheless, a total of 2,505 GPS locations were recorded every 60 seconds for one leveret over
three nights (approx. 835 per night). The leveret dispersed
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 32-38 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Conservation Evidence |
Volume | 7 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |