De første analyser af ulvens (Canis lupus) føde i Danmark
Nineteen male wolves ( Canis lupus ) and four females are known from Denmark 2012-14, which means that the wolf again is a regularly occurring carnivore in Danmark. To obtain the first results on the diet of wolf in Denmark, we analysed 42 scats, known from DNA analyses to be from wolves. Scats were...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Danish |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/a53ed7cf-4e5e-4f13-98f8-049464920fe3 https://researchmgt.monash.edu/ws/files/314686777/314686639_oa.pdf http://jydsknaturhistorisk.dk/Florafauna/FloraogFauna2015-1-2.pdf |
| Summary: | Nineteen male wolves ( Canis lupus ) and four females are known from Denmark 2012-14, which means that the wolf again is a regularly occurring carnivore in Danmark. To obtain the first results on the diet of wolf in Denmark, we analysed 42 scats, known from DNA analyses to be from wolves. Scats were collected in the field by hunters, naturalists and wildlife consultants, most often visually discriminated from dog scat by high content of hairs and bone fragments.The scats contained prey remains, of which roe deer Capreolus capreolus (40% occurrence), fallow deer Dama dama (17%) and red deer Cervus elaphus (17%) were the most prominent. Remains of small mammals (primarily rodents) occurred in 36% of all scats. Wild ungulates thus dominated the diet, and seem to comprise the same diet proportion as observed in most places in Poland and Germany. We found no remains from livestock. |
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