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Definitions

Wildlife sighting: Observing a wildlife species behaving normally in its native habitat or within the
city and is not displaying signs of aggression or predation towards humans.

Defensive behavior: Defensive confrontations are usually the result of a sudden encounter with a
bear or other wildlife protecting its space or food cache and females with their young. Defensive
confrontations seldom lead to contact. In defensive confrontations, the animal is threatening a
person because it feels threatened.

Aggressive behavior and predatory behavior: Any bear or mountain lion that continues to
approach, follow, disappear and reappear, or displays other stalking behaviors is possibly displaying
predatory behavior.

Dangerous wildlife: Wildlife that poses an immediate threat to human health and safety.

Body condition: An animal’s overall visual appearance as it relates to a measure of the energetic
(nutritional) state of an individual animal, especially the relative size of energy reserves such as fat
and protein.

Nuisance wildlife: Wildlife that poses an immediate threat or damages property, but does not
threaten public safety, is considered a nuisance.

Synanthropic wildlife: Various wildlife species that live near and benefit from an association with
humans and artificial habitats created by humans, such as in and around Boulder.

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