Habitat Use by Collared Peccaries in an Urban Environment

Bellantoni, Elizabeth S.; Krausman, Paul R.

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“…The wadi environment is a preferred bedding habitat for peccaries (Bellantoni 1991), and our experiments suggest that this environment is perceived as safe even close to human activity (70 meters from trail or houses). The wadi provides safety in two major ways: (1) the vegetation density is higher due to the accumulation of water, (2) the wadi is physically hidden as a depression in the landscape below the sightline of most prowling predators.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Bellantoni, 1991). Additionally, the peccaries should prefer the areas with limited human activity (the houses) compared to the trail, where there is a constant stream of people.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These social mammals live in herds of 5-15 (usually a family group) where the dominant role is filled by a male. They are primarily herbivorous and in Sonoran Desert and feed on prickly pear cactus pads, bulbs, roots and insects (Bellantoni 1991). Near urban environments in Arizona they prefer the shaded areas of wadis, where they spend the hot hours of the day.…”

Section: Study Species-mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Too much of a good thing? A landscape-of-fear analysis for collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) reveals hikers act as a greater deterrent than thorny or bitter food

Bleicher

Rosenzweig

2018

Can. J. Zool.

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To study how wildlife perceive recreational users, we studied the habitat selection of a human commensalist, the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus, 1758)). We measured peccary activity patterns in a high-human-activity area (Tumamoc Hill Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona) using a landscape of fear analysis. We examined whether the perception of risk from human activity interacted with the anti-predator mechanisms of local plant species, in both chemical (tannin) and mechanical (thorns). The peccaries avoided food stations near a hiking trail. The population foraged less near houses, i.e. moderate human activity, than in the perceived safety of a small wadi. Plant defense treatments impacted the harvesting of food only in the safe zone, suggesting that risk trumps food selectivity. The strong effect of the hiking trail on habitat selection in this disturbance-loving species is an indicator of a much larger impact on sensitive species in conservation areas.

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Section: Riskmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…Bellantoni, 1991). Additionally, the peccaries should prefer the areas with limited human activity (the houses) compared to the trail, where there is a constant stream of people.…”

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confidence: 99%

Section: Study Species-mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Too much of a good thing? A landscape-of-fear analysis for collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) reveals hikers act as a greater deterrent than thorny or bitter food

Bleicher

Rosenzweig

2018

Can. J. Zool.

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“…Except during the winter, they were mainly nocturnal animals [86]. Urban herds were found foraging within 250 m of housing and within 400 m of housing when bedding, while the nonurban herds were found more than 825 m from housing [87].…”

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Natural Habitat, Housing, and Restraint of Six Selected Neotropical Animals in Trinidad and Tobago with the Potential for Domestication

2020

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This paper highlights the natural habitat, housing, and restraint needs of 6 Neotropical animals that are found in Trinidad and Tobago with the potential for domestication: agouti (Dasyprocta leporina), lappe/paca (Cuniculus paca/Agouti paca), capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), manicou/opossum (Didelphis marsupialis insularis), collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu/Pecari tajacu), and red brocket deer (Mazama americana). The year of the earliest reference cited was 1950 and the most recent was 2018, with over 100 references being used. The average density, home range size, social group, and housing requirements were also examined as these factors would play a role in designing enclosures. A number of different physical and chemical restraint techniques were also discussed. Information from other species within the same genus was incorporated as some of the animals did not have sufficient literature.

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“…We expect these mammals may eat Ferocactus fruits or seeds when available; online searches provide photographic evidence of several of these species eating Ferocactus fruits and we have witnessed consumption by these animals in captivity. Even the largest species in this assemblage ( Odocoileus , Pecari , Canis, and Urocyon ) often become habituated to urban environments and forage within 100 m of residential areas (Bellantoni and Krausman , Bellantoni et al. , Grinder and Krausman , Markovchick‐Nicholls et al.…”

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In an arid urban matrix, fragment size predicts access to frugivory and rain necessary for plant population persistence

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Cities annex wilderness and alter the interactions between the plant and animal assemblages embedded in the remaining nature fragments. Here, we explore consequences of habitat fragmentation for dispersal of cactus by fruit‐eating mammals in the Sonoran Desert landscape. We use the barrel cactus, Ferocactus wislizeni, as a model system to diagnose (1) how fruit utilization by a mammal assemblage changes with fragment area and isolation, (2) what characteristics make individual plants particularly susceptible to frugivore failure, and (3) how inter‐fragment differences in plant–frugivore interactions influence the seedlings’ susceptibility to other stressors (granivores and drought). We described the type and phenology of plant–animal interactions in 20 fragments along a 0.05–500 ha size continuum within a large city (Tucson, Arizona, USA), and combined allometric scaling models of mammalian home ranges and descriptions of plant size distributions to predict the fraction of the fruit crops accessible to resident mammalian frugivores in each fragment. Fruit removal rates generally increased along a continuum of fragment sizes, and older, taller plants were particularly susceptible to frugivore failure and more likely to have fruits attacked by granivorous rodents. As a result, thresholds where the nature and/or phenology of a plant's interactions with animals changes can be accurately predicted by integrating descriptions of fragment size, fragment isolation, and plant population structure. Last, we found support for the hypothesis that fragmentation‐induced changes in the phenology of fruit removal compromise the seedlings’ ability to exploit precipitation delivered in winter and spring. Specifically, as a result of slower fruit removal, the seed crops in small fragments forfeit access to an increasing proportion of the rains between October and March, which determine whether cactus seedlings can survive the following dry season (April, May, June). We expect these inter‐site differences in the type and phenology of interactions to compromise the integrity of plant populations in smaller fragments, to become increasingly influential in ecological settings in the Sonoran Desert where access to precipitation is essential, and to become increasingly prevalent as the plants in newly fragmented plant populations age (grow) to sizes that are more susceptible to frugivore failure in the defaunated landscapes.

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Habitat Use by Collared Peccaries in an Urban Environment

Cited by 16 publications

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Too much of a good thing? A landscape-of-fear analysis for collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) reveals hikers act as a greater deterrent than thorny or bitter food

Too much of a good thing? A landscape-of-fear analysis for collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) reveals hikers act as a greater deterrent than thorny or bitter food

Natural Habitat, Housing, and Restraint of Six Selected Neotropical Animals in Trinidad and Tobago with the Potential for Domestication

In an arid urban matrix, fragment size predicts access to frugivory and rain necessary for plant population persistence

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