I'm not sure whether this is something we feel is resolvable given that
a) we don't have a tissue sample to confirm,
b) this is a few years ago now and merges are usually done within year, and
c) my evidence may not be strong enough
but I wanted to raise it here anyways:
Squirrel id = 23346 (eartags M3561/M3562) only has 3 trapping records, all on AG in spring 2018, two of which it’s labeled as female and one as male. There is no tagging information about this individual and no DNA ever taken, but all three trappings list it as a recap adult. I strongly suspect that the eartags were misread at the beginning of 2018 and carried forward in the following two trappings of this individual (5s and 6s can be mixed up depending on the tag stamping, and 6s and 0s can be mixed up easily as well).
It seems likely that this individual is actually squirrel_id = 22200 (eartags M3601/ M3602), which is a squirrel born on this grid and captured many times in the same general area (lower P line) over its lifespan. Given the expansion of home ranges observed in 2018, it's within a likely geographic range.
Solution: merge squirrel 23346 with existing 22200?
I'm not sure whether this is something we feel is resolvable given that a) we don't have a tissue sample to confirm,
b) this is a few years ago now and merges are usually done within year, and c) my evidence may not be strong enough but I wanted to raise it here anyways:
Squirrel id = 23346 (eartags M3561/M3562) only has 3 trapping records, all on AG in spring 2018, two of which it’s labeled as female and one as male. There is no tagging information about this individual and no DNA ever taken, but all three trappings list it as a recap adult. I strongly suspect that the eartags were misread at the beginning of 2018 and carried forward in the following two trappings of this individual (5s and 6s can be mixed up depending on the tag stamping, and 6s and 0s can be mixed up easily as well).
It seems likely that this individual is actually squirrel_id = 22200 (eartags M3601/ M3602), which is a squirrel born on this grid and captured many times in the same general area (lower P line) over its lifespan. Given the expansion of home ranges observed in 2018, it's within a likely geographic range.
Solution: merge squirrel 23346 with existing 22200?