Supplementary Material from Australian native mammals recognize and respond to alien predators: a meta-analysis
Prey naiveté is a failure to recognize novel predators and thought to cause exaggerated impacts of alien predators on native wildlife. Yet there is equivocal evidence in the literature for native prey naiveté towards aliens. To address this, we conducted a meta-analysis of Australian mammal response...
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ftroysocietyfig:oai:figshare.com:article/6973922 2023-05-15T15:50:34+02:00 Supplementary Material from Australian native mammals recognize and respond to alien predators: a meta-analysis Peter B. Banks Alexandra J. R. Carthey Jenna P. Bytheway 2018-08-16T11:09:56Z https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6973922.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Supplementary_Material_from_Australian_native_mammals_recognize_and_respond_to_alien_predators_a_meta-analysis/6973922 unknown doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.6973922.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Supplementary_Material_from_Australian_native_mammals_recognize_and_respond_to_alien_predators_a_meta-analysis/6973922 CC BY 4.0 CC-BY Environmental Science prey naiveté alien species predator recognition meta-analysis feral cat red fox Text Journal contribution 2018 ftroysocietyfig https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6973922.v1 2022-01-01T19:45:58Z Prey naiveté is a failure to recognize novel predators and thought to cause exaggerated impacts of alien predators on native wildlife. Yet there is equivocal evidence in the literature for native prey naiveté towards aliens. To address this, we conducted a meta-analysis of Australian mammal responses to native and alien predators. Australia has the world's worst record of extinction and declines of native mammals, largely due to two alien predators introduced more than 150 years ago: the feral cat, Felis catus , and European red fox, Vulpes vulpes . Analysis of 94 responses to predator cues shows that Australian mammals consistently recognize alien foxes as a predation threat, possibly because of thousands of years of experience with another canid predator, the dingo, Canis lupus dingo . We also found recognition responses towards cats; however, in four of the seven studies available, these responses were of risk-taking behaviour rather than antipredator behaviour. Our results suggest that a simple failure to recognize alien predators is not behind the ongoing exaggerated impacts of alien predators in Australia. Instead, our results highlight an urgent need to better understand the appropriateness of antipredator responses in prey towards alien predators in order to understand native prey vulnerability. Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus The Royal Society: Figshare |
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Prey naiveté is a failure to recognize novel predators and thought to cause exaggerated impacts of alien predators on native wildlife. Yet there is equivocal evidence in the literature for native prey naiveté towards aliens. To address this, we conducted a meta-analysis of Australian mammal responses to native and alien predators. Australia has the world's worst record of extinction and declines of native mammals, largely due to two alien predators introduced more than 150 years ago: the feral cat, Felis catus , and European red fox, Vulpes vulpes . Analysis of 94 responses to predator cues shows that Australian mammals consistently recognize alien foxes as a predation threat, possibly because of thousands of years of experience with another canid predator, the dingo, Canis lupus dingo . We also found recognition responses towards cats; however, in four of the seven studies available, these responses were of risk-taking behaviour rather than antipredator behaviour. Our results suggest that a simple failure to recognize alien predators is not behind the ongoing exaggerated impacts of alien predators in Australia. Instead, our results highlight an urgent need to better understand the appropriateness of antipredator responses in prey towards alien predators in order to understand native prey vulnerability. |
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Supplementary Material from Australian native mammals recognize and respond to alien predators: a meta-analysis |
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