kgie Studies
Old Problems
Of Deer Hunt
What effect, if any does the
weather have on deer hunting?
Edwin D. Michael, wildlife man
agement student at A&M Universi
ty, is attempting to solve the age-
old question raised annually among
sportsmen with the opening of
deer season.
Michael admits his conclusions
are not firmed yet. He is waiting
on the computer to support the
answers, although his general ob
servations bear out some hunter’s
philosophy.
The best hunting times appear
to be sunrise and sunset, when the
deer begin to move in search of
food. The worst hours are mid
morning and mid-afternoon when
the animals bed down.
In addition, however, Michael
discovered the four-footed animals
also feed at high noon, to a great
extent, and many enjoy midnight
grazing.
Formerly from West Virginia,
Michael has spent two-years at the
Welder Wildlife Refuge near Sin-
ton, checking on the daily habits
of the white-tailed deer.
From 40 feet high observation
towers he constructed, Michael
watched the deer around the clock,
five or six days each month for
two years. He sweated summer’s
highest temperatures and shivered
from the winter’s cold.
He counted deer every hour,
noting their movements, their eat
ing habits and other actions in an
effort to learn more about the
weather’s influence on deer.
Michael found that a sharp
cold front causes the deer to be
come more active. He also su
spects that full moon stimulates
the deer’s night life, thus hunt
ing probably would be slowed the
next day.
On the night shift, Michael used
a high-powered light and telescopic
equipment to locate the deer, which
paid “little or no attention to the
light.’’
The night work was more pain
staking, however. The count was
made as light reflected from the
animal’s eyes.
‘It’s amazing how similar their
eyes are to those of cows, racoons,
bobcats and other animals,” the
doctoral student related. “Even
a spider more than 50 yards away
once fooled me.”
During the study, Michael also
watched two does give birth to
fawns. His eyewitness descriptions
are recorded in the “Journal of
Wildlife Management.”
One doe bedded beside a bush
and gave birth to twins without
apparent struggle, and another
continued to graze while the fawn
'vas born,” Michael recalled.
I wrote about the incidents be
cause I knew of no published ar
mies describing the birth of wild
fawns,” he added.
His data on the two-year stuc y
p been delivered the A&M Data
I processing Center, where the in-
ormation will be punched for the
Machines.
Then the findings will be
ammed for final conclusions.
BATTALION
Thursday, August 13, 1964
College Station, Texas
‘LOCO AMERICANO’
Students Study Mexican Wildlife
New Data Gatherer
A mobile data gathering unit, valued at $100,000, has
arrived on the A&M University campus. A gift of Dresser
Controls of Houston, the equipment will be used by the
Department of Chemical Engineering for laboratory and
research uses. Dr. C. D. Holland, chemical engineering
professor, examines the new electronic equipment.
The Mexicans shook their heads
as they paused along the dusty
road leading to a banana planta
tion.
They stopped to watch an
American, perched on a rock in
the middle of the Rio Cuzalapam.
“Loco Americano,” one Latin
mumbles to another, “What is he
doing ?”
They watched Jack Meyer trap
a lizard, slip a plastic band around
the animal’s waist and let it go
free.
The Mexicans looked at each
other, shook their heads in con
fusion and continued down the
dusty road.
What the Latins didn’t know was
Jack Meyer and others from A&M
University had discovered the wild
life “pot o’ gold,” 1 little-known
Contract Awarded
A&M University’s Engineering
Extension Service has been award
ed an $80,000 contract by the U.S.
Office of Civil Defense to sponsor
training in Texas.
Dr. W. R. Bodine, head of A&M’s
civil defense training program, said
the funds will be used to conduct
20 conferences, 10 shelter manager
instruction and 12 radiological
monitor instructor schools.
In addition, Bodine and his four-
member staff will teach 15 shelter
manager courses and offer train
ing for radiological defense offi
cers, both new programs under the
new contract.
Bodine said each shelter in Tex
as needs a shelter manager, radio
logical monitor officer and an as
sistant shelter manager.
“Through our instructor
courses ,” he added, “we train
persons who will be able to teach
others proper shelter management
practices. Eventually this state
wide shortage of civil defense per
sonnel may be filled.”
A&M’s civil defense training cen
ter, located at the Research Annex,
was established a year ago.
Other staff members include Eu
gene Kronenberg, Clark Titus,
Frank Malek, Jr., and Floyd Vaden.
Grant Provides
Scholarships
A&M University is the recipient
of a $2,000 grant from the Cooper-
Bessemer Corporation, Dorsey E.
McCrory, director of A&M’s De
velopment Fund, announced.
The funds will be used to pro
vide two $500 scholarships and
equal grants for the departments
of chemical engineering and
mechanical engineering, McCrory
added.
Larry Allen Maddox of College
Station and Edward Duran Espar
za of San Antonio will receive the
scholarships. Maddox also received
the same award last year.
Maddox, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.
A. Maddox, Jr., is a senior chemical
engineering major.
animals located in the remote
areas south of Veracruz.
For a half-dozen years now,
A&M wildlife management stu
dents have worn paths through the
untraveled Los Tuxtuals area in
search of rare animals.
John Raymond (Jack) Meyer of
Indianapolis, Ind., wasn’t the first
Aggie to discover the wildlife
habitat. Meyer is interested in a
semi-aquatic lizard called “Anolis
barkeri.”
This reptile, known previously
by a single specimen collected in
the Los Tuxtulas region in 1933
and officially recorded in 1939,
lives in the swift clear streams
flowing from the mountains.
Meyer recently learned the lizard
was named after R. Wright Barker
of Houston, a geologist who lived
there in the early 1930’s as an oil
company employee.
Barker, who had just arrived in
the Americas from England, caught
the odd-looking reptile and sent it
to a British scientist named
Schmidt, who officially recorded
the animal in 1939.
Only until recently did the
Aggies learn that Barker was a
Houston resident. They then ar-1
ranged to meet the geologist, who
had kept detailed information on
his earlier trips to Mexico.
“He (Barker) was also surprised
to learn that the lizard was named
after him,” John Van Conner,
another wildlife graduate student,
said. “He heard nothing from
Schmidt.”
Conner is more interested in the
so-called swamp eel, found in
swampy^ areas of Los Tuxtulas.
Interestingly enough, the eel’s sex
changes after two years, for some
unanswered reason.
Conner and Richard Roneskevitz
of Garfield, N. J., are on their
way back to Mexico with supplies
for Meyer and Harry Centner of
Fort Worth.
Centner wants to know more
about parasites that inhabit the
tropical climate, and Roneskevitz
is concerned with a herpetology
study.
Doug Robinson of Waterbury,
Conn., is a Los Tuxtulas veteran.
A Ph.D. student, he located the
stream where the Anolis barkeri
are found. His finding also is re
corded in scientific journals.
Most of the research equipment
is stored in an apartment rented
by Robinson, and most of the
Aggies make headquarters there.
The Department of Wildlife
Management professors insist stu
dents participate in field studies,
and many students select the Los
Tuxtulas area because of the
chance for rare finds.
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