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A treetop diner: camera trapping reveals novel arboreal foraging by fishing cats on colonial nesting birds in Bangladesh.
- Source :
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Mammalia: International Journal of the Systematics, Biology & Ecology of Mammals . Mar2024, Vol. 88 Issue 2, p100-105. 6p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Based on camera trap images, we document active foraging attempts on nests of colonial waterbirds by a fishing cat Prionailurus viverrinus. The nests were built in the canopy of an 8-m-tall Indian Oak tree Barringtonia acutangula in the Haor Basin region, northeast Bangladesh. In 2022, two events of fishing cats reaching nests with fledglings were documented. In one event, the cat killed four fledglings. The species primarily follows a piscivorous diet and is evolutionarily adapted for semi-aquatic hunting niches. These records provide the first known evidence of the arboreal hunting behaviour observed in the fishing cat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *COLONIAL birds
*FISH communities
*FORAGE fishes
*CATS
*CAMERAS
*PREDATION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00251461
- Volume :
- 88
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Mammalia: International Journal of the Systematics, Biology & Ecology of Mammals
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175704580
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2023-0074