How quickly do invasive raccoons learn to steal bait? : lesson from disturbed small mammal trapping

• Autorzy: Piórkowska Kinga , Jankowiak Łukasz , Modelska Zuzanna , Hoffmann Anke , Kuzdrowska Klaudia , Malinowska Bogna , Sęk Oliwia , Rychlik Leszek

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.3161/15052249PJE2023.71.2.005

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The expansion of invasive alien species is a major threat to the environment and economy. Animal invasions, especially by raccoons Procyon lotor are increasingly harmful. Raccoons' reduced neophobia enables easy adaptation to humans and surroundings. They exploit human presence in their natural habitat. Camera traps and direct observations in Germany's Lower Oder Valley National Park and Poland's Lower Oder Valley Landscape Park revealed raccoons' cognitive abilities and effective learning processes. This study demonstrates their rapid learning in finding and opening traps, removing bait, killing and eating trapped rodents. To minimize disturbance by raccoons, we recommend to preselect study plots without raccoons or to use of protective devices.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

invasive species; raccoon; cognitive abilities; disturbance of field research; small mammal trapping

• Wydawca: Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Polish Journal of Ecology
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 71, nr 2-3
• Strony: 95--99
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 14 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Piórkowska Kinga

• Department of Ecology and Anthropology, Institute of Biology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5768-9170

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Jankowiak Łukasz

• Department of Ecology and Anthropology, Institute of Biology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3843-9778

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Modelska Zuzanna

• Department of Ecology and Anthropology, Institute of Biology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

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Hoffmann Anke

• Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institutfür Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany

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Kuzdrowska Klaudia

• Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institutfür Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany

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Malinowska Bogna

• Department of Systematic Zoology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland

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Sęk Oliwia

• Department of Systematic Zoology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9724-5677

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Rychlik Leszek

• Department of Systematic Zoology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024)