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Musteloids and Mongoose

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Niko Pekonen: " Wolverine (gulo gulo) running on snow. Finland "


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Kintoo Dhawan: " Yellow-throated Marten ! These cute Predators are very ferocious, they can even kill small deers and monkeys ! "


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Lucien Beaumont: " One of Africa’s most seldom seen small predators, the African Striped weasel, making an escape to freedom after I rescued it from underneath a house this morning. "


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Cindy Goeddel: " Otter Pups. "


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( This post was last modified: 11-14-2020, 01:20 PM by BorneanTiger )

Because of the spread of the coronavirus, Denmark had decided to cull all its captive mink (I assume the European or Eurasian species, Mustrela lutreola), which numbered around 17 million, before that raised an outcry: https://www.who.int/csr/don/06-november-...enmark/en/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54890229https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/...s-research

Credit: Reuters
   

Mink farmer Henrik Nordgaard Hansen killed the entire herd at his farm near Næstved, Denmark, last week. Credit: Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images:
   
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Here's a published skull with "echinochrome staining" from Winer et al. 2013, who reported that 25% of Enhydra lutris specimens had such staining - and 2/3 of which are males. This staining apparently comes from eating urchins.
https://researchgate.net/publication/235370448_The_Dental_Pathology_of_Southern_Sea_Otters_Enhydra_lutris_nereis



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Irara (Eira barbara)

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Tayra (Eira barbara) in the brazilian Cerrado.

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Low individual diet variation and high trophic niche overlap between native polecat and invasive American mink 

Abstract

Introductions of invasive species increase competitive interactions in a community
proportionally to the similarity between the ecological niches of invasive and native
species. Food represents one of the most important resources in uencing competi-
tion, and differences in the trophic niche of native and invasive species can affect
their ability to coexist. Moreover, in sympatric native and invasive species of simi-
lar body size and high sexual dimorphism, competition for food between individu-
als of the same sex may be higher than intraspecic competition between males
and females, thus making the overall competitive interactions more complex. The
aim of this study was to investigate the intraspecic and intrasexual competition
for food resources between two sexually dimorphic mustelids, the native polecat
Mustela putorius and invasive American mink Neovison vison, in riparian habitats
of Białowie
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za Forest (Poland). Based on an analysis of 1215 scats, we studied the
food habits of eight polecat and 24 mink individuals. The trophic niches of the
polecat and mink were narrow and overlapped considerably. The diet of both
predators was dominated by amphibians (mainly the common frog Rana tempo-
raria), which comprised up to 94.1% and 89.7% of polecat and mink prey bio-
mass, respectively. Individual diet variation was low within each sex group of both
species. Interspecic similarities in body mass of the sexes and intraspecic differ-
ences in body mass between the sexes did not affect pairwise niche overlaps. How-
ever, we observed some mechanisms of food segregation between the sexes and
species that reduced intra- and interspecies competition. Polecat males hunted more
common toads Bufo bufo than polecat females, mink males and mink females.
They also hunted larger frogs than polecat females, and the opposite pattern was
recorded in mink. We conclude that two predator species exploiting abundant prey
can coexist despite a very high overlap in their food niches.
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In a recent study, a King Cobra was killed by a Hog Badger.


It was an adult female. 



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source: Marshall, Benjamin M., et al. "Hits close to home: repeated persecution of King Cobras (Ophiophagus hannah) in Northeastern Thailand." Tropical Conservation Science 11 (2018): 1940082918818401.
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Three important research papers regarding the ecology of the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens):
  1. Ecology of the red panda Ailurus fulgens in the Wolong Reserve, China LINK
  2. Ecology of the red panda Ailurus fulgens in the Singhalila National Park, Darjeeling, India LINK
  3. The Endangered Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens): Ecology and Conservation Approaches Across the Entire Range LINK
Incredible camera trap images of red pandas in their current range countries. India, Bhutan, Nepal & China. 


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