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The diet of feral cats on islands


The diet of feral cats on islands: a review and a call for more studies

The 179 different vertebrate prey species we found in the diets of feral cats on islands confirmed the wide niche breadth of this efficient ...

The diet of feral cats on islands: A review and a call for more studies

We reviewed 72 studies of insular feral cat diet from 40 islands worldwide. Cats fed on a wide range of species from large birds and medium sized mammals to ...

THE DIET OF FERAL CATS (FELIS CATUS) ON RAOUL ISLAND ...

Keywords: Feral cat; Felis catus; kiore; Rattus exulans; Norway rat; Rattus norvegicus; diet; Raoul Island;. Kermadecs. Introduction. When populations of feral ...

The diet of feral cats on islands: a review and a call for more studies

Cats are among the most successful and damaging invaders on islands and a significant driver of extinction and endangerment. Better understanding of their ...

the diet of feral cats (felis catus) on alegranza island - Digital CSIC

The Feral Cat (Felis catus) is widely distributed over the Canaries and is a top pred- ator in the food chain among the vertebrates in the islands. To date, ...

The diet of introduced cats on San Cristobal Island, Galapagos

Studies from the 1980s indicate that the main prey items that make up the diets of introduced cats in the Galapagos include reptiles such as lava lizards and ...

Feeding Ecology of a Feral Cat Population on a Small ...

We examined the diet of a long-established feral cat population on a small Mediterranean island through the analysis of 1,219 scats collected during a 4-year ...

The diet of feral cats on islands: a review and a call for more studies

The broad range of taxa consumed by feral cats on islands suggests that they have the potential to impact almost any native species, even the smallest ones ...

Biology & Behavior of Cats - What they Eat & More

For many feral cats, people's garbage is a main source of food. Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first ...

Trophic ecology of feral cats (Felis silvestris f. catus) in the main ...

The diet of feral cats in the main habitats of the Canary Islands is composed of introduced mammals, birds, reptiles and insects.

The diet of feral cats at New Island, Falkland Islands, and impact on ...

21% of the analysed scats). These represent the first systematic data on feral cat diet for the Falklands. A simple bioenergetics model suggests ...

Diet of feral cats Felis catus L., 1758 on Santa Luzia, Cape Verde ...

No endangered species were identified in scats of this introduced predator, but future surveys must be carried out to further avoid threats to the island's.

Diet of feral cats in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

We documented the diet of feral cats by analysing the contents of 42 digestive tracts from Kilauea and Mauna Loa in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

Diet and home-range of the feral cat, Felis catus (Carnivora

Thus, the diet of the cats will change depending on prey availability. The most frequent prey of the feral cat on Socorro Island was an introduced rodent. This ...

The diet of feral cats at New Island, Falkland ... - Repositório do ISPA

The most frequent prey were three introduced mammals (house mice Mus musculus, ship rats Rattus rattus and rabbits Sylvilagus sp.) and the thin-billed prion ...

Use of molecular scatology to assess the diet of feral cats living in ...

Despite being regularly fed, 58.2% of cat scats contained DNA from natural prey. The diet composition of the cat colonies differed depending on ...

Location of the diet studies of feral cats carried out on islands...

Better understanding of their ecology can improve effective management actions such as eradication. We reviewed 72 studies of insular feral cat diet from 40 ...

Feral cat diet and predation on endangered endemic mammals on a ...

Conclusions. Mammals, especially endangered endemic mammals, were main prey species of feral cat on Amami Island. In Amami Island, where native ...

Diet of feral cats during the Scopoli's shearwater breeding season ...

Abstract. Feral cats (Felis catus) are considered to be one of main successful invasive species of island ecosystems. The introduced cats.

The diet of feral cats (Felis catus) on Raoul Island, Kermadec group

77 Citations · The diet of feral cats at New Island, Falkland Islands, and impact on breeding seabirds · Trophic habits of feral cats in the high mountain ...