Neil R Jordan, Michelle Campbell-Ward, James Vandersteen, Nicholas Colman, Brendan Alting, Dushmantha Gamage, Kylie M Cairns, Mathew Bell, Jose Altuna, Benjamin J Pitcher
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ABSTRACT The role of the Dingo (variously Canis familiaris, C. familiaris dingo or C. lupus dingo, and hereafter C. dingo) in suppressing Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) populations in Australia has been investigated, with various data tending to show an inverse relationship between densities of the two species (e.g. Letnic et al. 2012; Johnson and VanDerWal 2009). There are very few examples in the literature where direct killing was either observed or inferred (but see Moseby et al. 2012), making each a valuable datapoint. Here, we present a short description of a young adult female Red Fox presumed to have been killed by Dingo in Myall Lakes National Park on the basis of: (1) the close proximity of a Dingo pack (within approximately 20m) to the carcass; (2) the overlap between recorded values of inter-canine distance in Dingo and the wounds on the Red Fox; and (3) the location of those wounds on the body.
摘要澳洲野狗(Canis familiaris, C. familiaris Dingo或C. lupus Dingo，以下简称C. Dingo)在抑制澳大利亚红狐(Vulpes Vulpes)种群中的作用已经进行了调查，各种数据倾向于显示两种物种的密度之间呈反比关系(例如Letnic et al. 2012;Johnson and VanDerWal, 2009)。在文献中，很少有直接杀人的例子被观察到或推断出来(但见Moseby et al. 2012)，这使得每个例子都是有价值的数据点。在这里，我们提供了一个关于一只年轻成年雌性红狐的简短描述，据推测是在Myall Lakes国家公园被野狗杀死的，依据是:(1)野狗群离尸体很近(大约20米以内);(2)澳洲野狗犬间距离记录值与红狐的伤口记录值存在重叠;(3)伤口在身体上的位置。
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