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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106024
	Wildcat scats: Taphonomy of the predator and its micromamal prey
	Marin-Monfort M.D.; García-Morato S.; Olucha R.; Yravedra J.; Piñeiro A.; Barja I.; Andrews P.; Fernández-Jalvo Y.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	225
英文摘要	Small sized felids, such as wild and domestic cats, are one of the most common predators in the nature and in sites occupied by humans in archaeological and historical contexts. Wildcats have ingestion/digestion traits highly destructive for their prey, i.e.: teeth to chew causing extreme breakage, and digestion along the entire digestive tract with low pH gastric juices causing extreme bone corrosion. Small sized cats are also well known to play with the prey and select skeletal parts to ingest. The present study is focused on the taphonomic analysis of micromammal remains recovered from scats produced by European wildcats (Felis silvestris silvestris) during several months and years. Excrements were collected from the Montes do Invernadeiro Natural Park (Galicia, Spain). Following the taphonomic methodological protocols, anatomical representation, bone breakage and degrees of digestive corrosion were evaluated. Results obtained from the skeletal representation indicate a high abundance of cranial skeleton and a high fracture pattern. Most dental elements show digestion, reaching extreme grades of corrosion, but the proportions of micromammal prey elements affected varies between taxonomic groups. The large sample size collected during 2 years, including different seasons, show no differences in either taxonomic composition or degree of digestion between the four seasons. The scat contents provide a basic and general pattern of alterations caused by carnivorous mammals on the bony elements of their prey. Some differences between felid predator species have also been observed, thus pointing out the necessity of more actualistic taphonomic analysis that will allow us to obtain a more accurate indication of modifications produced by small carnivorous mammals and specific differences. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Carnivores; Felids; Felis silvestris silvestris, wildcat; Micromammals; Montes do Invernadeiro Natural Park (Galicia, Spain); Taphonomy
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Corrosion; Carnivores; Felids; Felis silvestris silvestris, wildcat; Galicia; Micromammals; Taphonomy; Mammals; carnivore; cranium; digestion; feces; felid; national park; prey availability; skeleton; small mammal; taphonomy; taxonomy; wild population; Galicia [Spain]; Montes do Invernadeiro; Orense [Galicia]; Spain; Felidae; Felis catus; Felis silvestris; Mammalia
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151688
作者单位	Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, 28006, Spain; Palaeontology of Cenozoic Vertebrates Research Group (PVC-GIUV), Àrea de Paleontologia, Universitat de València, C/Doctor Moliner 50, Valencia, 46100, Spain; Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C/José Antonio Novais 12, Madrid, 28040, Spain; Departamento de Prehistoria, Facultad Geografía e Historia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C/Profesor Aranguren s/n, Madrid, 28040, Spain; Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, C/Profesor Aranguren s/n, Madrid, 28040, Spain; Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andrés Bello, Av. República 440, Santiago de Chile, 7591538, Chile; Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Darwin 2, Madrid, 28049, Spain; Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, 5BD-7SW, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Marin-Monfort M.D.,García-Morato S.,Olucha R.,et al. Wildcat scats: Taphonomy of the predator and its micromamal prey[J],2019,225.
APA	Marin-Monfort M.D..,García-Morato S..,Olucha R..,Yravedra J..,Piñeiro A..,...&Fernández-Jalvo Y..(2019).Wildcat scats: Taphonomy of the predator and its micromamal prey.Quaternary Science Reviews,225.
MLA	Marin-Monfort M.D.,et al."Wildcat scats: Taphonomy of the predator and its micromamal prey".Quaternary Science Reviews 225(2019).