Study on the feeding behaviour of house shrew (Suncus murinus L.) in Bogor to feed and rodenticide

Shrew is an animal belong to small mammals that the existence must be noticed because it has defecation behavior and their droplets often pollutes house. can vectors in spread of infectious diseases human. management not been conducted well. Information about most preferred bait effective rodenticide as a reference controlling widely known. Chemical control using rodenticides enough does take long time. The objective this research was obtain shrew preference types feed commonly consumed by human it. It used trapping poisoned which are management. Baits were cooked rice, white bread, Tenebrio larvae, cricket, chicken nugget, fish meatball, salted fish. Choice tests serving eight feeds one cage for seven consecutive days first test. Then, choose four prefered tested second Acute poison (zinc phosphide) chronic (coumatetralyl) mixed with feed, then served comparison third Result showed cricket therefore trap or bait. Moreover, other rice substitution if crickets difficult find. Zinc phosphide more than coumatetralyl kill relatively fast on time death.