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| Widmer,Cynthia Elisa; Perilli,Miriam Lúcia Lages; Matushima,Eliana Reiko; Azevedo,Fernando Cesar Cascelli. |
| Abstract The capture of wild animals can provide important information on community structure, population dynamics, home range size, activity patterns, habitat use, denning, social behavior and health status. The objective of this study was to describe the method of capture with details on baits, injuries, non-target captures, anesthesia and costs, to evaluate its success as part of a health evaluation program of ocelots in a Brazilian Atlantic Forest Reserve. From a total of 1,011 trap-night effort in 86 days, we had 68 capture events composed of ocelots (22%, n=15) and non-target species (78%, n = 53). We captured 10 individual ocelots in 15 capture events, corresponding to 5.7 days to capture one ocelot. Capture efficiency was 14.8 ocelots/1,000... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Atlantic forest; Brazil; Capture cost; Capture efficiency; Capture selectivity; Injury rate. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032017000100201 |
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| Azevedo,Fernando Cesar Cascelli; Canuto,Vagner; Souza,Fernanda; Widmer,Cynthia Elisa. |
| The process of forest fragmentation affects mostly top predators, which are more prone to first disappear. Pumas, Puma concolor, are known to have a generalist diet that includes a wide variety of wild and domestic prey species. The capacity of adapting their diet to consuming prey in anthropogenic habitats may be the reason for this species' success in incorporating anthropogenic areas with different levels of fragmentation as part of its habitat. Here we report a case of puma consumption of a large wild prey species, the tapir, Tapirus terrestris. From March 2012 to October 2013 we collected 85 puma's scats opportunistically inside fragments of the Atlantic Forest in the Parana state, Brazil. In one of the scats we found hairs and some hooves of a tapir,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other |
Palavras-chave: Predation; Puma concolor; Scavenging; Tapirus terrestris. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032016000100404 |
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