When waterholes get busy, rare interactions thrive: Photographic evidence of a jaguar (Panthera onca) killing an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)
Abstract
During a camera trap survey conducted in Guatemala in the 2019 dry season, we documented a jaguar killing an ocelot at a waterhole with high mammal activity. During severe droughts, the probability of aggressive interactions between carnivores might increase when fixed, valuable resources such as water cannot be easily partitioned.
- Publication:
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Biotropica
- Pub Date:
- March 2021
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2021Biotr..53..367P
- Keywords:
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- activity overlap;
- activity patterns;
- carnivores;
- interspecific killing;
- drought;
- climate change;
- Maya forest;
- Guatemala