A follow-up…
We recently sampled the forest plot within the exclosure where the young bull mysteriously resides. He watched us for the majority of the morning, keeping his distance, but still not wandering too far from us. Finally, he decided we were relatively harmless and decided to lay down in the grass.
After lunch, Gerardo and another Weyerhaeuser employee stopped by with some tools to open the fence and herd the bull out. These exclosures don’t have gates, so the guys had to untwist the wire where the fence was bound together, and loosen the whole thing.
Once that was done (surprisingly quickly, by the way), they went in and coaxed the bull out by walking around it to help direct it to the opening.
As the bull approached the opening, he stopped and sniffed the fence first. Then, deciding it was okay, he darted off, and we didn’t see him the rest of the day. I like to think that he joined up with his original herd, which I’m hoping is still the one in this area.
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