The first documented interaction between a long‐tailed weasel (<i>Mustela frenata</i>) and a plains spotted skunk (<i>Spilogale interrupta</i>) carcass-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The first documented interaction between a long‐tailed weasel (Mustela frenata) and a plains spotted skunk (Spilogale interrupta) carcass

Published:2023-01 Issue:1 Volume:13 Page:
ISSN:2045-7758
Container-title:Ecology and Evolution
language:en
Short-container-title:Ecology and Evolution

Author:

White Kara M.¹^ORCID,Stafford Joshua D.²,Lonsinger Robert C.³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Natural Resource Management South Dakota State University Brookings South Dakota USA

2. U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Natural Resource Management South Dakota State University Brookings South Dakota USA

3. U.S. Geological Survey, Oklahoma Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management Oklahoma State University Stillwater Oklahoma USA

Abstract

AbstractA novel interaction between a long‐tailed weasel (Mustela frenata) and a plains spotted skunk (Spilogale interrupta) carcass is detailed. In November 2020, a farmer in Edmunds County in north‐central South Dakota sent in a video recording of a long‐tailed weasel with a spotted skunk carcass. Location of the event, carcass condition, and recorded behavior of the long‐tailed weasel offer probable, but unconfirmed, evidence that the spotted skunk was killed by the long‐tailed weasel.

Funder

South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Nature and Landscape Conservation,Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.9758

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