ArticleScientific reports2016
Extraterritorial hunting expeditions to intense fire scars by feral cats.
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- Fire as a driver and mediator of predator-prey interactions.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- Sex-based differences in the use of post-fire habitats by invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Arthropods and Fire Within the Biologically Diverse Longleaf Pine Ecosystem.Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2022Review
- Two Methods of Monitoring Cats at a Landscape-Scale.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Long-Distance Movements of Feral Cats in Semi-Arid South Australia and Implications for Conservation Management.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- After the Megafires: What Next for Australian Wildlife?Trends in ecology & evolution · 2020Article
- Overlapping den tree selection by three declining arboreal mammal species in an Australian tropical savanna.Journal of mammalogy · 2020Article
- Understanding the intricacy of canid social systems: Structure and temporal stability of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) groups.PloS one · 2019Article
- A burning question: what are the risks and benefits of mammalian torpor during and after fires?Conservation physiology · 2018Review
- Extra-territorial movements differ between territory holders and subordinates in a large, monogamous rodent.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Human-modified habitats facilitate forest-dwelling populations of an invasive predator, Vulpes vulpes.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Feral cats are normally territorial in Australia's tropical savannahs, and hunt intensively with home-ranges only two to three kilometres across. Here we report that they also undertake expeditions of up to 12.5 km from their home ranges to hunt for short periods over recently burned areas. Cats are especially likely to travel to areas burned at high intensity, probably in response to vulnerability of prey soon after such fires. The movements of journeying cats are highly directed to specific destinations. We argue that the effect of this behaviour is to increase the aggregate impact of cats on vulnerable prey. This has profound implications for conservation, considering the ubiquity of feral cats and global trends of intensified fire regimes.
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