Feral Cats Are Better Killers in Open Habitats, Revealed by Animal-Borne Video
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Feral Cats Are Better Killers in Open Habitats, Revealed by Animal-Borne Video
One of the key gaps in understanding the impacts of predation by small mammalian predators on prey is how habitat structure affects the hunting success of small predators, such as feral cats. These effects are poorly understood due to the difficulty of observing actual hunting behaviours. We attached collar-mounted video cameras to feral cats living in a tropical savanna environment in northern...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133915