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The importance of rodents to a specialist carnivore in an industrialized site

  • Fortune Ravhuanzwo ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Daan J.E. Loock und Lourens H. Swanepoel EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 15. Juli 2024
Mammalia
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Abstract

Specialist carnivores are often among the first species disappearing from transformed, human-dominated landscapes. However, some carnivore species can exploit abundant food sources in human-dominated landscapes. In this study, we investigated the diet of a specialist carnivore, the serval (Leptailurus serval), inhabiting artificial and natural landscapes surrounding a petrochemical plant in the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa. From 2013 to 2018, for each year, we collected and analysed a total of 264 scat samples. We found that rodent species dominated the serval diet, while other prey items like birds, insects, and unidentified prey contributed little to the diet. In terms of biomass consumed, Otomys sp (56.94 %), Mastomys sp (19.12 %), and Rhabdomys sp (8.68 %) were the most important rodent prey. We further found that biomass consumed is only affected by species, not season or species–season interactions. Our results concur with previous studies that serval is primarily a rodent specialist and that specialisation holds even in human-altered landscapes.

Keywords: diet; biomass; scat analysis; rodents; serval
Corresponding authors: Fortune Ravhuanzwo, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture, University of Venda, Private Bag x5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, South Africa; and Department of Zoology and Entomology, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, University of Fort Hare, 1 King Williamstown Rd, Alice, 5700, South Africa, E-mail: ; and Lourens H. Swanepoel, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture, University of Venda, Private Bag x5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, South Africa; and SARChI Chair on Biodiversity Value and Change, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Agriculture, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

We thank Mr N. L. Nembudani and Mr T. Maphothe for assisting on several field data collection trips.

  1. Research ethics: We can confirm that this is original research that has not been published elsewhere, nor it is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. This study was conducted in accordance with the Animal Research Ethics, and it was approved by the Interfaculty Animal Ethics Committee of the University of Free State (Project number: UFS-AED2019/0084).

  2. Author contributions: All authors conceptualized the study. DL collected the scats, FR analysed the scats, and LHS did the statistical analysis. DL wrote the initial draft, and all authors contributed to the final draft. The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: All authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest, and the information presented in this publication does not necessarily reflect any views or opinions of funding bodies and their employees.

  4. Research funding: We thank the National Research Foundation (NRF) grants (UID 107099 & 87311 ) awarded to Dr L. H. Swanepoel for funding, and Sasol Synfuel Operations for funding and logistics.

  5. Data availability: Data and code will be loaded to https://datadryad.org/ once published.

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Received: 2023-07-04
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Published Online: 2024-07-15
Published in Print: 2024-11-26

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2023-0079
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
diet; biomass; scat analysis; rodents; serval

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Ecology
  3. Novel insights into red deer (Cervus elaphus) habitat use and suitability in human-dominated versus near-natural landscapes
  4. Effect of conifer afforestation on the occurrence and food availability for Zaedyus pichiy (Xenarthra: Chlamyphoridae) in the north-western Patagonian steppe of Argentina
  5. Effect of seasonal variation on feeding and food preference of olive baboons (Papio anubis) in a protected Guinean savannah of West Africa
  6. Noteworthy records of survival, longevity, and recruitment in a key area for jaguars in Western Mexico
  7. The forbidden fruit: toque macaques (Macaca sinica) feeding on invasive pond apple (Annona glabra) in Sri Lankan mangroves
  8. Electrocutions as an important cause of mortality for a mesocarnivore
  9. Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) and mesocarnivores in a Mongolian protected area
  10. Materials of garden dormouse summer nests in Germany
  11. Increase in the frequency of melanism in Abert’s Squirrel in Boulder, Colorado
  12. The importance of rodents to a specialist carnivore in an industrialized site
  13. A stranding of pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico confirms the presence of the species in the Mexican Caribbean
  14. First report of a leucistic Brown Agouti (Dasyprocta variegata) in Bolivia
  15. Predation of Natalus macrourus (Chiroptera: Natalidae) by Trachops cirrhosus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in a ferriferous Brazilian Amazon cave
  16. Biogeography
  17. Current distribution of the Reeves’ muntjac Muntiacus reevesi (Ogilby, 1839) in France
  18. Climate change impacts on the distribution of Dryomys laniger (woolly dormouse) in Türkiye: a data-driven approach
  19. First record of the grand leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros grandis (Hipposideridae), from Bangladesh
  20. Rediscovery of the Bavarian pine vole (Microtus bavaricus) in Germany
  21. Southernmost occurrence of Cuniculus paca (Rodentia, Cuniculidae): new Argentinean localities based on vouchers
  22. New findings on the karyotype and distribution of two Rhipidomys Tschudi, 1845 species (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from Upper Purus River
  23. Physiology
  24. Reproductive physiology of Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in Pothwar Plateau, Pakistan
  25. Evolutionary Biology
  26. Genetic analysis brings evidence of the sexual selection hypothesis for an infanticide event in giant armadillos (Priodontes maximus)
  27. Taxonomy/Phylogeny
  28. Three small species of shrews (Soricidae) from the Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo, representing two new taxa and a new record
  29. Molecular analysis reveals the evolutionary distinctiveness of the Silver-backed Chevrotain within the genus Tragulus
  30. Museology/History of Science
  31. The names of the Dusky Striped Squirrel (Funambulus obscurus, Sciuridae) and Kathleen Ryley in the Bombay Natural History Society’s Mammal Survey
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