Feeding ecology of the European wildcat Felis silvestris in Portugal

Sarmento, Pedro

doi:10.4098/at.arch.96-39

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“…Different groups of insects including beetles are usually present in 0.5-18% of the scats of wildcats (Sarmento 1996) and also feral domestic cats (Woods et al 2003;Medina and Garcia 2007). Larger insects catch the attention of cats and activate their hunting instincts very often.…”

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An unusual foreign body in a cat: a case report

Agudelo¹,

Filipejová²,

Frgelecová³

et al. 2018

Vet. Med. - Czech

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Foreign bodies that affect airways are a well-recognised problem in small-animal practice. Cats in par ticular, may be especially at risk of aspiration due to their predatory behaviour. Here, we report a case of an insect as a foreign body, namely a beetle in the tracheal bifurcation of a cat. Radiographs suggested a wide range of possibilities for differential diagnosis, but the presence of a foreign body was initially suspected. A final diagnosis was not pursued by the owner and the cat was euthanised. The presence of a summer chafer was then confirmed. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first time such a foreign body and radiographic findings are reported in the literature.

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confidence: 99%

An unusual foreign body in a cat: a case report

Agudelo¹,

Filipejová²,

Frgelecová³

et al. 2018

Vet. Med. - Czech

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“…The limited research existing on the Iberian wild cat's diet demonstrates that the rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus is an important prey item of this predator (Aymerich et al 1980, Aymerich 1982, Sarmentó 1996. Within this context, the large body size of the Iberian wild cat may be an adaptation for rabbit predation, a prey species significatively larger than the rodents normally captured in Europe, mainly Microtus.…”

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Iberian wild cat Felis silvestris tartessia predation on rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus: functional response and age selection

Gil‐Sánchez¹,

Valenzuela²,

Sánchez³

1999

Acta Theriol.

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(Linnaeus, 1758) through the study of the seasonal wild cat's diet and variations in rabbit availability in south-east Spain. This prey formed 73.7% of the total consumed biomass and was negatively correlated with trophic diversity. The wild cat showed a functional response approximate to Holling's type 2, exhibiting a high dependence on rabbit. The age class preferred was that of the juvenile rabbit, the smallest age class, and such hunting behaviour may be considered to be opportunistic. Results are discussed within the context of the relationship between the great size of this wild cat subspecies and the body size of the principal Iberian prey in Mediterranean areas, the rabbit.

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“…Wildcats like autochthonous Mediterranean scrubland areas with scrub-pastureland mosaics ( Lozano et al 2003 ), and may rely for feeding on rabbits ( Gil-Sanchez et al 1999, Lozano et al 2006 or small mammals ( Sarmento 1996, Moleon and Gil-Sanchez 2003, Carvalho and Gomes 2004. These habitats and prey are common in many parts of DNP, so one would expect that wildcats were more abundant in the area than what we have found.…”

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Surprising low abundance of European wildcats in a Mediterranean protected area of southwestern Spain

Soto

Palomares

2014

Mammalia

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Abstract:The wildcat is a protected species in Europe but the lack of information on its status in many areas of its distribution range is an obstacle to conservation initiatives. To assess the status of the species over a 54,300 ha Mediterranean protected area in southwestern Spain (Do ñ ana National Park, DNP), we carried out track censuses during the wet season of 2007 -2008 and 2008 -2009 in 2 × 2 km 2 quadrants and set camera traps from June 2008 to October 2010 in quadrants or nearby quadrants where cat tracks were detected. We detected a total of 52 cat tracks for both study years and identified six different individuals from 28 photographs taken at 12 out of 166 trapping stations. We hypothesized that the causes of the a priori surprising low abundance of the species in the area might be multifold and might be explained by the historic competitive exclusion of the species by the Iberian lynx, the decrease of rabbit population in the DNP during the past decades, the isolation of DNP from the nearest natural areas that could have slowed the recovery of wildcat populations after a species declining and a potential increased mortality rate over time due to disease transmission from domestic cats.

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Feeding ecology of the European wildcat Felis silvestris in Portugal

Cited by 44 publications

References 7 publications

An unusual foreign body in a cat: a case report

An unusual foreign body in a cat: a case report

Iberian wild cat Felis silvestris tartessia predation on rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus: functional response and age selection

Surprising low abundance of European wildcats in a Mediterranean protected area of southwestern Spain

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