Keeping Water - Episode 81: Pond vs Predators pt 2: Mammals

This episode is the second of my two-part series on pond predators, the first you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9KPPnjtXLk was about herons, this one focuses on mammals.

Hope you enjoy it, thank you to everyone who let me use their videos (see below)

All the best, Andy

Sources
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Videos:

Red Fox Video, Klaus Reiser
https://pixabay.com/users/sommerland-6877379/

2 Fox in the Koi pond, Vincent Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBA1TNOYk_U

Wild Fox Trying to Eat my Koi, kimuseni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCkGzV0gjT0

Fox Pond Fishing vs Net. Night Vision, NodyaJ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMJFQ9fAIP4

Jet Spray in action, It's What I Do,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4yNWo3aFzw

Otter devoured exotic fish worth £1,000 from pond
in Edinburgh, SWD Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_5O9qbI-U

Otter in my Swindon UK pond, Pete Bayley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv52skGTDA8


Websites:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/otters-are-making-themselves-at-home-in-uk-cities.html

https://ukwildottertrust.org/the-otters/

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/where_to_see_otters

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/mammals/european-otter

https://www.four-paws.org/our-stories/publications-guides/cats-and-their-hunting-behaviour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox

https://www.countryfile.com/go-outdoors/days-out/how-and-where-to-spot-otters/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox

https://icatcare.org/understanding-the-hunting-behaviour-of-pet-cats-an-introduction/


Research:

Growth in Otter (Lutra lutra) Populations in the UK as Shown
by Long-term Monitoring
Mason, Christopher & Macdonald, Sheila. (2004). Ambio.
33. 148-52. 10.1639/0044-7447(2004)033[0148:GIOLLP]2.0.CO;2.

The domestic cat: the biology of its behaviour
Macdonald, David & Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki & Kerby, G..
(1988). The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour.
Group-living in the domestic cat: its sociobiology and
epidemiology. 14.

Biogeographical patterns in the diet of an opportunistic
predator: the red fox Vulpes vulpes in the Iberian Peninsula
Francisco, Díaz-Ruiz & Delibes-Mateos, Miguel & García-Moreno,
José & López-Martín, Josep & Ferreira, PhD, Catarina & Ferreras,
Pablo. (2013). Mammal Review.
43. 59-70. 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2011.00206.x.

Reconciling actual and perceived rates of predation by domestic cats
Mcdonald, Jennifer & Maclean, Mairead & Evans, Matthew &
Hodgson, David. (2015). Reconciling actual and perceived rates of
predation by domestic cats. Ecology and Evolution. 5. 10.1002/ece3.1553.

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