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Top-predator carrion is scary: fight-and-flight responses of wild boars to wolf carcasses

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dc.contributor.authorRedondo-Gómez, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorRossi, Luca
dc.contributor.authorCardello, Mattia
dc.contributor.authorDe Pasquale, Soraya
dc.contributor.authorMartínez-Carrasco Pleite, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorSánchez- Zapata, José A.
dc.contributor.authorMoleón, Marcos
dc.contributor.departmentSanidad Animal
dc.contributor.otherFacultad de Veterinaria
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-28T10:10:45Z
dc.date.available2025-12-28T10:10:45Z
dc.date.copyright© 2023 The Authors
dc.date.issued2023-04-05
dc.description.abstractPredation risk largely constrains prey behavior. However, whether predators may be scary also after death remains unexplored. Here, we describe the “fight-and-flight” responses of a prey, the wild boar (Sus scrofa), to carcasses of (a) its main predator, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) and (b) a carnivore that very rarely kills wild boars, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), in the western Alps (Italy). We recorded the behavior of wild boars at 10 wolf and 9 fox carcass sites. We found eight “fight-and-flight" responses toward wolf carcasses, and none toward fox carcasses. Our results suggest that carnivore carcasses may indeed be scary; fear responses toward them are dependent on the species to which the carcass belongs; and animals approaching the carcasses are feared mainly when the latter are relatively fresh. This emphasizes the multiple and complex roles that carrion plays in the landscape of fear and opens exciting ecological, epidemiological, and evolutionary research avenues.
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dc.identifier.citationEcology and Evolution. 2023;13:e9911
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9911
dc.identifier.eissn2045-7758
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/182869
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relationThis study was funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and “ERDF A way of making Europe” through project PID2021-128952NB-I00. Daniel Redondo was funded by a predoctoral grant from the Junta de Andalucía PREDOC_00262). Marcos Moleón was partly supported by a research contract Ramón y Cajal from the MINECO (RYC-2015-19231).
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.9911
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectCanis lupus
dc.subjectLandscape of fear
dc.subjectPredation risk
dc.subjectPredator avoidance
dc.subjectPrey behavior
dc.subjectAntipredator responses
dc.subject.odsObjetivo 15: Bosques, desertificación y diversidad biológica
dc.titleTop-predator carrion is scary: fight-and-flight responses of wild boars to wolf carcasses
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