期刊
VETERINARY SCIENCES
卷 9, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/vetsci9090468
关键词
Leopardus; reintroduction; rescue; felid; telemetry; post-release monitoring; ocelot; margay; tropical rain forest
资金
- I Canje de Deuda Por Naturaleza
- Amazon Conservation Team
- RescateWildlife Rescue Center
- Jaguar Program of the National University of Costa Rica
- Nama Conservation
The study observed the effectiveness of releasing captive and rehabilitated wildlife. It found that avoiding human contact, ensuring hunting abilities, and selecting release sites is not enough, and more innovative and detailed protocols and monitoring are needed.
A 3- to 4-mo-old male ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and a 6- to 8-mo-old female margay (Leopardus weidii) were brought in from the wild, held in captivity, and rehabilitated for 906 and 709 days, respectively, at the Rescate Wildlife Rescue Center in Costa Rica. During captivity, both cats were kept as isolated as possible from humans and fed appropriate live wild prey. After maturing and demonstrating the ability to capture and feed on live prey, the cats were radio-collared, released at a national wildlife refuge previously assessed for predator and prey occurrence, and monitored. After 54 days, the ocelot was trapped while preying on chickens in a nearby community, and after 20 days, the margay was found dead, likely due to ocelot predation. Avoiding habituation to humans, assuring hunting abilities, and assessing release sites likely is not sufficient to assure successful release of these species, and more experimental releases with innovative and detailed protocols and monitoring are needed.
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