We apply this new approach to two epidemics of chronic wasting disease in mule deer.
Juvenal, whose family had been leading explorers and travelers through these mountains for decades, gave impromptu tutorials in mule handling.
We measured apprehension levels in mule deer with Giving Up Densities (GUDs) to evaluate predation risk levels of different habitat variables.
"We ought to come in mule carts, in old trucks, any kind of transportation people can get their hands on," he said.
Then there's the infectious relish with which in Mule Train (1977) he charges through Cole Porhymesike rhymesome"some rheumatism pills for some settlers in the hills" with hog-calls and whip-cracks and rolling rrrrr's worthy of Roy Orbison.
It was first discovered in mule deer kept at a Colorado state research facility near Fort Collins in 1967, and is known to affect a small percentage of wild elk and deer in Colorado, Wyoming and a corner of Nebraska.
The main character in "Mule Skinner Blues," Stephen Earnhart's documentary tribute to homegrown American eccentricity, is a retired Florida shrimper named Beanie Andrew, who is an epic talker and a recovering alcoholic.
A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy called chronic wasting disease is endemic, though rare, in mule deer and elk in northern Colorado and in white-tailed deer in parts of Wisconsin and several parts of Canada.
After this they moved to new positions in Mule Gulley where they undertook further defensive operations alongside the 26th Battalion.
First documented in the late 1960s in mule deer, the disease has affected elk on game farms and in the wild in a number of regions.
Residents of skin and rumen, and those ubiquitous in mule deer habitat dominated classifiable bacterial species.
