Same place, different time, head up: Multiple antipredator responses to a recolonizing apex predator.

ABSTRACT: Prey adjust their antipredator behavioral tactics to minimize the risk of an encounter with predators. Spatiotemporal responses of prey to predators have been reported, but the nature of antipredator response is not ubiquitous and it is the object of increasing interest, especially considering the recent recovery of large carnivores in Europe, and the potential for behavioral antipredator responses to elicit consequences at the ecosystem level. We have tested multiple antipredator responses by fallow deer Dama dama to wolf Canis lupus in a Mediterranean protected area recently recolonized by this apex predator. Through intensive camera trapping, we tested for temporal and spatial association between predator and prey, and we have also studied deer vigilance in forest habitats

SUBMITTER: Esattore B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10591180 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature