At the table with the big three carnivores - a sympatric occurrence of the golden jackal with bear, wolf and lynx captured on a camera trap in Slovakia

Authors

  • Nuno Guimaraes
  • Jozef Bučko National Forest Centre, Institute of Forest Resources and Informatics - Zvolen, Slovakia
  • Marián Slamka National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute - Zvolen, Slovakia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/eurojecol.v7i1.14655

Keywords:

Canis aureus, Canis lupus, Ursus arctos, Lynx lynx, dispersion

Abstract

In last decades, golden jackals expanded significantly their distribution range, increasing their population density, being nowadays present in many countries in Europe. In Slovakia, their dispersion and population increase became more constant from 2009. Records of wolves, lynx and bear from camera traps are rather common across Slovakia, while those of golden jackals are still rare, despite a large number of active traps. In this work, we present records of a camera-trap, located on the east side of the Kysuce Protected Landscape Area, where, for the first time, we detect a sympatric occurrence of the golden jackal with all three native large carnivores.

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Guimaraes, N., Bučko, J., & Slamka, M. (2021). At the table with the big three carnivores - a sympatric occurrence of the golden jackal with bear, wolf and lynx captured on a camera trap in Slovakia. European Journal of Ecology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.17161/eurojecol.v7i1.14655