Activity patterns of jaguars and pumas and their relationship to those of their potential prey in the Brazilian Pantanal
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Grasiela Porfirio
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Pedro Sarmento
Abstract
Jaguar and puma are the largest cats in the American continent. Competition between both species is expected due to similarities in diet and habitat use. The objective of this study was to test whether temporal separation exists between these two species and to analyze whether their activity patterns coincide with those of some of their potential prey. We used data from camera trapping to estimate activity patterns and measure the overlap between activity distributions using kernel density. The activity of jaguars and pumas overlapped extensively and followed those of some of their potential prey, suggesting a potential for competition.
Acknowledgments
This study was supported by MMX Mineração, Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia de Portugal-FCT (grant: SFRH/BD/51033/2010), and Instituto Homem Pantaneiro. We specially thank Teresa Bracher, Arackén Porfirio, André Giovanni, Fernando Tortato, Rafael Hoogesteijn, and Panthera, and John O’Brien for proofreading this paper.
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