ArticleApplied animal behaviour science2021
Smart carnivores think twice: Red fox delays scavenging on conspecific carcasses to reduce parasite risk.
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- Phylogeny Drives Carrion Consumption by Vertebrate Scavengers Towards Distantly Related Species.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Taking cues from ecological and evolutionary theories to expand the landscape of disgust.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Evaluating the Presence of Disgust in Animals.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Top-predator carrion is scary: Fight-and-flight responses of wild boars to wolf carcasses.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Epidemiology ofInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2022Article
- Carcass appearance does not influence scavenger avoidance of carnivore carrion.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Integrating terrestrial scavenging ecology into contemporary wildlife conservation and management.Ecology and evolution · 2022Review
- The Postmortem Interval of Two Decedents and Two Dog Carcasses at the Same Scene Based on Forensic Entomology.Insects · 2022Article
- Distinct epidemiological profiles of porcine circovirus 3 and fox circovirus in Canadian foxes (Current research in microbial sciences · 2022Article
- Ravens (Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
The recent SARS-CoV-2 epidemic has highlighted the need to prevent emerging and re-emerging diseases, which means that we must approach the study of diseases from a One Health perspective. The study of pathogen transmission in wildlife is challenging, but it is unquestionably key to understand how epidemiological interactions occur at the wildlife-domestic-human interface. In this context, studying parasite avoidance behaviours may provide essential insights on parasite transmission, host-parasite coevolution, and energy flow through food-webs. However, the strategies of avoiding trophically transmitted parasites in mammalian carnivores have received little scientific attention. Here, we explore the behaviour of red foxes (
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