Continent‐wide differences in diet breadth of large terrestrial carnivores: the effect of large prey and competitors

F Ferretti, S Lovari, M Lucherini, MW Hayward… - Mammal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite their importance for understanding consumer‐resource dynamics, the dietary
responses of large terrestrial predators to variations in prey richness and competition …

Native prey, not landscape change or novel prey, drive cougar (Puma concolor) distribution at a boreal forest range edge

MV Gaston, AF Barnas, RM Smith… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many large carnivores, despite widespread habitat alteration, are rebounding in parts of
their former ranges after decades of persecution and exploitation. Cougars (Puma concolor) …

Carnivore coexistence without competition: giant otters are more nocturnal around dens than sympatric neotropical otters

D Norris, F Michalski - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Nocturnal activity of tropical otters is rarely reported. To date no studies have documented
den use by sympatric giant (Pteronura brasiliensis) and neotropical otters (Lontra …