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How Fishing Cats <i>Prionailurus viverrinus</i> fish: Describing a felid’s strategy to hunt aquatic prey

2020-04-25

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Hunting strategies are key to carnivore survival (Krebs and Davies 2009;Kamil et al. 2012;Michalko and Pekar 2016). Fishing Cat’s (Prionailurus viverrinus) persistence in the ‘semi-aquatic niche’ (Kitchener et al. 2010) despite felids being terrestrial carnivores in general (>95%) (Hunter 2019) suggests the evolution of a successful hunting strategy. Its further suggest selection for hunting in wetlands. What ene...

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Literature Corpus work: 533a7034-2822-5b77-afbe-e82aac583d72
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.24.058925

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