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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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| Golin,Vanessa; Santos-Filho,Manoel; Pereira,Mônica Josene Barbosa. |
| Este estudo objetivou caracterizar plantas e frutos de araticum (Annona crassiflora), avaliar a frequência de consumo, predação e dispersão de suas sementes por animais e seus efeitos na germinação, em área de Cerrado, entre fevereiro de 2007 a junho de 2008. Baseado em armadilhas de pegadas, registrou-se a frequência de visitação (FV) e o consumo de frutos por animais, além da ação de insetos em frutos caídos no solo, sob as plantas. Estrumes de antas, Tapirus terrestris, foram amostrados para verificar a frequência de ocorrência (FO) e os danos causados por elas e por insetos. Para analisar a dispersão por antas, foram inseridas miçangas coloridas em frutos maduros caídos sob plantas-mãe. Posteriormente, foi medida a distância entre o local das fezes com... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Annona crassiflora Mart. (Annonaceae); Tapirus terrestris; Dispersores; Predadores; Cerrado. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782011000100016 |
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| Gondim,Maria Fernanda Naegeli; Acosta,Igor da Cunha Lima; Rangel,Maria Cristina Valdetaro; Soares,Herbert Sousa; Gennari,Solange Maria; Dubey,Jitender Prakash; Cubas,Zalmir Silvino; Moraes,Wanderlei de; Chaparro,Francisco Javier Sosa; Barreto,Francisco Candido Cardoso; Rossi Junior,João Luiz. |
| ABSTRACT: Lowland Tapir ( Tapirus terrestris ) is the second largest South American land mammal. It is strictly herbivorous and its exposure to Toxoplasma gondii should be indicative of environmental contamination by oocysts.In the present study antibodies to T. gondii in 47 Brazilian tapirs maintained ex situ in 10 Brazilian and in one Paraguayan institution were sought in serum samples by the modified agglutination test (MAT ≥25). None of the animals presented clinical signs during the study. From 47 animals 35 (74.5%) were positive with titers of 25 in 8, 50 in 6, 100 in 12, 200 in 5, 400 in 1 and 800 in 3. One animal had samples collected on twice, and 19 were born in captivity. There was no association between occurrence of T. gondii antibodies and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Ex situ; Lowland tapir; Tapirus terrestris; Toxoplasma gondii; Seroprevalence. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782017000300502 |
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