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Title: Peccary movements as determinants of the movements of large cats in Brazilian Amazonia
Authors: Pontes, Antonio Rossano Mendes
Chivers, David John
Keywords: Community Composition
Diurnal Activity
Felid
Food Availability
Forest Ecosystem
Movement
Nocturnal Activity
Seasonal Variation
Survival
Amapa
Maraca Island
South America
Mammalia
Panthera
Panthera Onca
Pecari Tajacu
Puma Concolor
Tayassu Pecari
Tayassuidae
Issue Date: 2007
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Journal of Zoology
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 273, Número 3, Pags. 257-265
Abstract: As part of a study on the ecology of a community of middle-sized and larger mammals in a seasonally dry forest in the far north of the Brazilian Amazonia, peccaries (the white-lipped peccary Tayassu pecari and the collared peccary Tayassu tajacu) and large cats (the jaguar Panthera onca and the puma Puma concolor) were regularly surveyed for 1 year. Diurnal and nocturnal surveys were carried out by the line-transect method, in five different forest types along a 10 km transect, and data were collected on their use of the forest types. The peccary herds and the large cats were sighted regularly throughout the study period, but more frequently over the dry season in the high-ground forests in eastern Maracá. Over the dry season, when food was scarce except in the Buritizals, T. pecari, closely followed by a P. onca, monopolized the Buritizal forests, whereas T. tajacu, followed by a P. concolor, exploited the other available high-ground forest types. Fluctuations in food supply regulated the dynamics of the two species of peccaries, which ultimately determined the whereabouts of the large cat predators. This may be a counter-strategy to survive in an extremely seasonal environment where food, more than any other variable, is the key determinant of the survival of both peccaries and large cats. © 2007 The Zoological Society of London.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00323.x
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