Wildlife Science Seniors
"Tune In’ On Cat Habits
THE BATTALION
Wednesday, November 19, 1969 College Station, Texas
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CAT TRACKERS
jarry Dzuik, left, and Harold Arnold adjust their receiver
irior to starting a four-hour electronic and visual surveil-
ance on a wild female cat. The Texas A&M senior wildlife
cience students are making the study of the cat’s behavior
nd habits.
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A study by two wildlife science
seniors on habits of wild house
cats may unlock some interesting
facts about the animals which
roam just about every part of a
modern society.
Harold Arnold of Fort Worth
and Larry Dziuk of Karnes City
are using electronic surveillance
to study the habits of a wild fe
male cat living on the campus.
They expect the study to show
how wild cats make their living,
what they eat, where they live,
who they associate with and if
they are a danger to family pets
or society.
“We are mainly interested in
the cat’s behavior and if it can
transmit disease,” Arnold pointed
out.
The test cat, a long-haired
black and white female, was
trapped in a bait-pedal cage. It
is one of many wild cats living
on the A&M campus, Arnold re
ports.
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the university’s police force soon
will be checking residence hall
rooms for stolen road and high
way signs.
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arrest and finding of two A&M
students involved in the theft of
caution and highway signs. Ar
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and John Wulforst, both of whom
live on campus.
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and highways and fined $25 in
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The cat’s immunity to drugs
was shown when a veterinarian
at Texas A&M’s Small Animal
Clinic used a large dosage of
tranquilizer that appeared to have
no effect on the animal.
A second dosage controlled the
cat enough for Arnold and Dziuk
to get a collar transmitter around
her neck.
Arnold described the cat as
“very vicious” when threatened
or trapped.
Arnold built the transmitter
into a brass antenna collar
weighing IVz ounces. A former
electronics employe at General
Dynamics in Fort Worth, Arnold
said the two mercury-powered
cells will keep the transmitter
in operation for about six weeks.
The receiver was made in wild
life science shops and the loop
antenna has been a crowd gather
er on campus, Arnold noted.
Electronic equipment is used
to locate the cat for visual ob
servation. Arnold said the trans
mitter has a range of three-
quarters of a mile over a clear
field and about three blocks on
campus.
A program for tracking in
cludes six four-hour watches un
til a 24-hour period is completed.
The two January graduates hope
to make four 24-hour observations
before writing their report.
Arnold said the cat lived under
Hart Hall until it was trapped
but now has moved its “bedroom”
to the steam pipe tunnels.
Although the tunnels spread
throughout the campus, the cat
has been spending her sleeping
hours in one spot near the edu
cational television station build
ing.
“It appears the cat knows the
tunnels,” Arnold observed.
“Her alarm clock apparently is
the birds returning to the trees
around the Academic Building
about 5:30 each afternoon.”
The cat comes out of the tun
nels near the building and spends
about two hours in the area where
hundreds of birds roost for the
night.
Arnold reasons the cat may be
after the birds, yet they have not
seen her eating or stalking any.
Her diet also includes raids on
trash cans and insects. She re
turns to the tunnels at daybreak.
The research is for a course in
animal ecology taught by Dr.
Ernest D. Abies. A report will
be written in January.
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