Depredación en la tortuga carey Eretmochelys imbricata por el Jaguar Panthera onca en la costa del Pacífico de Costa Rica

• Published in: Mammalogy Notes
• Main Authors: Hansel Herrera, Sergio Escobar-Lasso, Eduardo Carrillo-Jiménez
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Sociedad Colombiana de Mastozoología (SCMas) 2016
• Subjects: food; diet; feeding; Zoology; QL1-991; Ortiz; Orca; Orcinus orca
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.47603/manovol3n1.13-16; https://doaj.org/article/bbb6e08cdbfa4367945c76aee1cbceeb

In the sea, the most common predators of adult sea turtles are sharks (i.e., Carcharhinus leucas, Carcharodon carcharias, Galeocerdo cuvier) (Witzell 1987, Cliff & Dudley 1991, Fergusson et al. 2000) and killer whales (Orcinus orca) (Fertl & Fulling 2007); while on their nesting beaches, fem...