Abstract
Bottles were tested as traps for small mammals. Used in conjunction with three types of snap traps over 30,240 trap nights, bottles captured eight (2%) of the total 421 mammals taken. Bottles were inefficient in capturing small mammals compared to snap traps.
Keywords
small mammals,
trapping,
techniques,
snap traps
Citation
Taulman, James F.; Thill, Ronald E.; Wigley, T. Bently; Melchiors, M. Anthony. 1992. A comparison of bottles and snap traps for short-term small mammal sampling. American Midland Naturalist. 127(1): 208-210.