{"id":90539,"date":"2023-11-29T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=90539"},"modified":"2023-11-29T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:36:11","slug":"coyote-scavenging-affects-small-carnivore-behavior","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/coyote-scavenging-affects-small-carnivore-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote scavenging affects small carnivore behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- 16:9 aspect ratio --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JFqdxT1Sljo\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!-- 16:9 aspect ratio --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"cleardiv\" \/>\n<h3>Bobcats may act leery when coyotes have recently visited a gut pile<\/h3>\n<p>For a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ecs2.4596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study published recently in <em>Ecosphere<\/em><\/a>, Alex Jensen, a postdoctoral researcher at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, and his colleagues placed 75 trail cameras across a variety of forest habitats in early 2020, and again in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The researchers watched the behavior of gray foxes (<em>Urocyon cinereoargenteus<\/em>), bobcats (<em>Lynx rufus<\/em>), opossums (<em>Didelphis virginiana<\/em>) and raccoons (<em>Procyon lotor<\/em>), paying attention to how many days it took these species to arrive at the carcasses. They also watched how other species behaved around the carcasses when coyotes (<em>Canis latrans<\/em>) had also visited in the past seven days.<\/p>\n<p>Using data from 71 of the cameras, they found that coyotes were the most common mesocarnivores at the sites\u2014they appeared at 90% of the sites during the study. Due to the extirpation of black bears <em>(Ursus americanus<\/em>), wolves (<em>Canis lupus<\/em>) and cougars (<em>Puma concolor<\/em>), coyotes are the largest carnivores in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Coyotes] really only had a direct impact on bobcats,\u201d said Jensen, who conducted this study while finishing his PhD at Clemson University in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ecs2.4596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ecs2.4596<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlife.org\/wild-cam-coyote-scavenging-affects-small-carnivore-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article on the Wildlife Society website<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr class=\"cleardiv\" \/>\n<p><em>For more information about our upcoming activities, conservation news and ground-breaking research, follow @NaturalSciences on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naturalsciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90545,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/90539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/90539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}