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Distribution and hotspots of the feeding areas of jaguars on sea turtles at a national park in Costa Rica [Distribuição e pontos de concentração de áreas de predação de tartarugas marinhas por onças pintadas em parque nacional da Costa Rica]
(Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 2017)
A poorly described aspect of the trophic relation between sea turtles and jaguars is the distribution and hotspots of the feeding areas of jaguars on the nesting beaches. It is very important to identify the areas where ...
Population status of terrestrial mammals’ in two protected areas in the west central region of Costa Rica [Estado poblacional de mamíferos terrestres en dos áreas protegidas de la región central occidental de Costa Rica]
(Revista de Biología Tropical, 2017-11-16)
In the West Central Region of Costa Rica, there are plenty of forests under public and private protection; however, they are increasingly exposed to fragmentation. This is the first report about species richness and the ...
Characterization of attack events on sea turtles (chelonia mydas and lepidochelys olivacea) by jaguar (panthera onca) in naranjo sector, santa rosa national park, Costa Rica
(International Journal of Conservation Science, 2016-01)
In this study, we examined sea turtles consumption by jaguars and their temporal and spatial distribution at Naranjo beach, Santa Rosa National Park Costa Rica. We include information about sea turtle consumption rate by ...
Inter-trophic food provisioning between sea and land: The jaguar (panthera onca) as provider of sea turtle carcasses to terrestrial scavengers
(International Journal of Conservation Science, 2017-07-10)
A more complete perspective of carrion use by terrestrial vertebrates and about the role of predators in net carrion supply will improve our understanding of critical ecological processes, particularly those associated ...
Factors affecting Jaguar and Puma predation on livestock in Costa Rica
(Wildlife Biology in Practice, 2016-06)
Throughout their range, wild felids in the Americas prey on livestock and this sometimes leads to retaliatory killing. Recently, conservation and research programs focused on such conflicts have recommended mitigation and ...
Scavenging on sea turtle carcasses by multiple jaguars in northwestern Costa Rica
(Therya, 2016)
Information on scavenging by jaguars is scarce, dispersed and little documented in the scientific literature, producing a shallow understanding of this phenomenon. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to describe the behavior ...
Bush Dogs in Central America: Recent Range Expansion, Cryptic Distribution, or Both?
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2019-05-01)
Bush dogs (Speothos venaticus) are a small, wide-ranging neotropical pack-hunting canid whose ecology is relatively poorly known. Here, we document new, repeated observations of bush dog groups in east-central (Barbilla ...
Seasonal use of waterholes and pathways by macrofauna in the dry forest of Costa Rica
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-03-01)
Temporal and spatial scarcity of water in semi-arid and seasonal ecosystems often leads to
changes in movements and behaviour of large vertebrates, and in the neotropics this dynamic
is poorly understood due to logistical ...
Wildlife diversity and relative abundance among a variety of adjacent protected areas in the northern Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica
(MDPI AG, 2020-04-01)
Protected areas are intended to achieve the long-term conservation of nature, but not all such areas are equal in their effectiveness because of their varying regulation of human activities. In Costa Rica, we assessed ...
Consumption of wild rice (Oryza latifolia) by free-ranging jaguars, pumas, and ocelots (Carnivora-Felidae) in northwestern Costa Rica
(Elsevier Inc., 2020-03)
There is limited information about plant consumption by felid species, yet anecdotal
evidence suggests that plants and grass are a complementary component in the diet of
domestic and wild carnivores. We report opportunistic ...