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Can urban fence lizards identify cats?

2026-07-23

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Urban habitats can serve as wildlife refuges, or as ecological traps. As global urbanization continues to increase, native prey species may experience reduced threat from natural predators that tend to avoid human-populated areas. However, such protection often comes at the expense of susceptibility to synanthropic predators, one of the most prevalent being domestic house cats ( Felis catus ). While cats are a kn...

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Literature Corpus work: 668ec87b-2226-58d4-94da-42705581609a
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.22.735083

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