Bark stripping by animals

found: Work cat.: Electr. reprod./Kelly, H.L.P. The effect of elephant utilisation on the Sterculia rogersii and Adansonia digitata populations of the Kruger National Park, 2000:abstr. (elephant induced damage and mortality of baobab and common star-chestnut trees) p. 2 (elephants eat the bark and wood of these species and, by gouging out the wood with their tusks, can excavate large cavities in the trunk) p. 62, etc. (bark which has been stripped from each tree has been referred to as bark stripping; bark stripping of baobab trees; debarked trees; utilisation such as debarking results in scarring of the trees)

found: Hodge, S. The prevention of mammal damage to trees in woodland, 1998, via WWW, viewed July 17, 2006:p. 1 (Most damage to trees arises from either browsing (feeding on buds, shoots and foliage) or removal of bark from main stems or branches. The latter may occur by gnawing (bark-stripping) or rubbing.) p. 3 (bark damage (stripping, rubbing, fraying); bark stripping; stripping of bark)

found: OCLC, July 17, 2006(bark-stripping by Barbary macaques; moose bark stripping on mountain ash; bark-stripping and food habits of blue monkeys; bark-stripping of slippery elm by white-tailed deer; hazard from the seedling debarking weevil; tree debarking by black bear)

found: Google search, July 17, 2006(bark stripping by deer; bark stripping by moose; bark stripping by goats; bark stripping damage; grey squirrels and bark-stripping damage; sugar maple bark stripping by gray squirrels; bark stripping of hinoki cypress by sika deer; cedar bark stripping by Barbary macaques; bark-stripping wounds; bark peeling by elephant; moose, elk, and deer do a lot of bark peeling, which means that they strip the bark from the smooth and young red maples and beech; debarking by giraffe; debarking by goats; debarking by ponies and deer; debarking by grey squirrels; barkstripping by moose; barkstripping by ungulates)