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Food Habits and Temporal Activity Patterns of the Golden Jackal Canis Aureus and the Jungle Cat Felis Chaus in Pench Tiger Reser JoTT NOTE 3(11): 2221–2225 Food habits and temporal activity et al. 2007; Edgaonkar 2008; patterns of the Golden Jackal Canis Ramesh et al. 2009) and very few aureus and the Jungle Cat Felis chaus studies were carried out on meso- in Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya carnivores (Sankar 1988; Mukher- Pradesh, India jee 1989; Balasubramanian & Bole 1993; Mukherjee et al. 2004; Aiyadurai & Jhala 2006). Aniruddha Majumder 1, K. Sankar 2, Qamar Food habits and temporal activity patterns of the Qureshi 3 & Santanu Basu 4 Golden Jackal Canis aureus and the Jungle Cat Felis chaus were studied between January 2008 and June 1,2,3,4 Wildlife Institute of India, P.O, Box 18, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001, India 2009 in Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) (79009’-79022’E 1 Email: [email protected] (corresponding author), & 21038-21050’N), Madhya Pradesh, central India. 2 [email protected], 3 [email protected], 4 santanubasu2k6@ gmail.com Pench Tiger Reserve connects Kanha with Satpura Ti- ger Reserve and forms a continuous forest patch in cen- tral India which offers one of the important habitats of The ability of ecologically similar species to coex- large and meso-carnivores in the Indian subcontinent ist depends largely on the degree to which resources (Biswas & Sankar 2002; Qureshi et al. 2006; Acharya are limiting and how resources can be partitioned as et al. 2007). The overall goal of the present study is (i) the species become sympatric (Schoener 1974). Em- to determine the frequency of occurrence of different pirical studies dealing with mammalian carnivores food items in the diet of these two meso-carnivores in showed that coexisting carnivores tend to have differ- PTR, (ii) to examine the implications of these diet pro- ent dietary and activity patterns, indicating that it is a files and temporal activity for understanding resource common phenomenon for coexisting species to have partitioning patterns and ecological sympatry among different niches (Maddock & Perrin 1993; Tatara & them in PTR. Doi 1994). In India, most of the studies on dietary and The Pench Tiger Reserve comprises a national park temporal activity patterns of carnivores have been car- (292km2), a sanctuary (118km2) and a reserved forest ried out on large carnivores (Johnsingh 1983; Karanth (348km2) covering an area of the 758km2. Vegetation & Sunquist 1995; Biswas & Sankar 2002; Andheria in the area is broadly classified as having both tropi- cal dry deciduous and tropical moist deciduous forests Date of publication (online): 26 November 2011 (Champion & Seth 1968). Teak (Tectona grandis L.) Date of publication (print): 26 November 2011 and its associated species in the area represent a tran- ISSN 0974-7907 (online) | 0974-7893 (print) sition from tropical dry deciduous to tropical moist Editor: Shomen Mukherjee deciduous forests. The terrain is undulating in most Manuscript details: areas of the tiger reserve (Biswas & Sankar 2002). Ms # o2713 Received 20 February 2011 Pench experiences markedly seasonal climate with a Final received 17 September 2011 Finally accepted 20 October 2011 distinct summer (March–June), monsoon (July–Sep- tember) and winter (October–February) and receives a Citation: Majumder, A., K. Sankar, Q. Qureshi & S. Basu (2011). Food habits and temporal activity patterns of the Golden Jackal Canis aureus mean annual rainfall of c. 1400mm. The temperature and the Jungle Cat Felis chaus in Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, 0 0 India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(11): 2221–2225. ranged from 2 C in winter to 49.5 C in summer during the study period. Copyright: © Aniruddha Majumder, K. Sankar, Qamar Qureshi & Santanu Basu 2011. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. JoTT The Golden Jackal (body weight 8–11 kg) (Prater allows unrestricted use of this article in any medium for non-profit purposes, reproduction and distribution by providing adequate credit to 1980; Giannatos 2004) ranges from northern Africa the authors and the source of publication. and extends across the middle-east to India. The spe- Acknowledgements: We are thankful to the Madhya Pradesh Forest cies is included in CITES Appendix II and Schedule Department, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Director and Dean of Wildlife Institute of India for their support to carry out field study in III in the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 of India. The Pench. Mr. Vinod Thakur, Gurhanlal and Brijlal are also acknowledged for Jungle Cat (body weight 5–6 kg) has established it- their assistance in the laboratory and in the field. self over a wide range from northern Africa through OPEN ACCESS | FREE DOWNLOAD south-western Asia to India, Ceylon and Indo-China Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | November 2011 | 3(11): 2221–2225 2221 Food habits of Golden Jackal and Jungle Cat A. Majumder et al. (Prater 1980). It is included in CITES Appendix II photograph. The camera delay we kept at a minimum and Schedule II of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act (15 seconds) and sensor activity was set high. We 1972. Apart from the Golden Jackal and the Jungle maximized our effort to select the best site for deploy- Cat, other carnivore species found in the study area ing camera traps as per sign intensity of study species are Tiger Panthera tigris, Leopard Panthera pardus, and no bait was used to attract the animals. Based on Dholes Cuon alpinus, Palm Civet Paradoxurus her- the exact time of the photo-capture for the total number maphrodites, Ratel Mellivora capensis, Small Indian of identified individuals of Golden Jackal and Jungle Civet Viverricula indica, Common Mongoose Her- Cat were pooled into six time categories: 12:00–16:00 pestes edwardsii and Ruddy Mongoose Herpestes hr; 16:01–20:00 hr; 20:01–00:00 hr; 00:01–04:00 hr; smithii (Biswas & Sankar 2002). Rodent species found 04:01–08:00 hr and 08:01–12:00 hr. in the study area are Indian Gerbil Tatera indica, Flat Student t-test (Zar 1984) showed no significant dif- Haired Mouse Mus platythrix and Bush Rat Golunda ference on both dietary (p=0.06) and activity pattern ellioti (Dungariyal 2008). (p=0.08) of these two meso-carnivores between two The diets of the Golden Jackal and the Jungle Cat seasons (summer and winter) so we pooled the data can be studied through scat analysis (Reynolds & of both into one to analyze them for the present study. Aebischer 1991; Mukherjee et al. 1994; Mukherjee The analysis of scats revealed the presence of 10 prey et al. 2004). A total of 50 Golden Jackal scats and species in the Golden Jackal and eight prey species in 85 Jungle Cat scats were collected wherever encoun- the Jungle Cat diets (Table 1). Rodents contributed tered from the intensive study area (292km2). Scats the maximum in the diet of the two predators (40% were mostly collected on roads (65% Golden Jackal in Golden Jackal and 63.6% in Jungle Cat). In Jackal scats and 56% Jungle Cat scats), trails (19% Golden scats, 86% contained single prey type, 12% contained Jackal scats and 34 % Jungle Cat scats) and dry stream two prey types and 2% contained three prey types. For beds (16% Golden Jackal scats and 10% Jungle Cat Jungle Cat scats, 84.7% of the scats contained single scats). Jackal and Jungle Cat scats were identified by prey type, 14.1% contained two prey types and 1.2% their size, shape and associated signs (Weaver & Fritts contained three prey types. The estimated dietary 1979; Green & Flinders 1981; Danner & Dodd 1982; overlap between jackal and jungle cat was 0.9 (90%) Mukherjee et al. 2004). Scats, once collected from the (Table 2). field were washed and dried. Hair and prey remains were compared with reference slides and other body Table 1. Percentage frequency of food items recorded parts of different prey species available at the Wildlife in scats of Golden Jackal and Jungle Cat in Pench Tiger Institute of India laboratory. Reserve, Madhya Pradesh. We used Pianka’s index (Pianka 1973) for measur- No. of % fre- No. of % fre- scats quency scats quency ing diet overlap between predators. Food item (Golden of occu- (Jungle of occu- 2 2 1/2 OAB = ΣpiA*piB/(Σp iAp iB) Jackal) rrence Cat) rrence where, pi is the relative frequency of prey item i in Rodents 22 40 63 63.6 the diet of species A and B. This index (O) ranges in Langur Semno- 3 5.4 1 1 value from 0 (indicating no overlap) and 1 (complete pithecus entellus Hare Lepus 6 10.9 11 11.1 overlap). nigricollis Information on temporal activity pattern was ob- Chital Axis axis 13 23.6 6 6.1 tained using camera traps (Gompper et al. 2006; Long Sambar Rusa 1 1.8 2 2 et al. 2008). Fifty-two pairs of self-triggered analog unicolor Nilgai Bosephalus 2 3.6 0 0 cameras (DEER CAM ™) were deployed in each 2km tragocamelus 0 0 x 2km grid in the intensive study area (21.07 –21.08 N Wild Pig Sus 1 1.8 1 1 & 79.020–79.50E), close to animal trails, between scrofa March and June for two successive years. Entire Birds 2 3.6 7 7.1 camera trap area (>250 km²) covered a homogeneous Reptiles 4 7.2 8 8.1 teak-mixed and undulating habitat. The cameras had Cattle 1 1.8 0 0 a 35mm lens, and recorded the date and time of each 0 - Not present 2222 Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | November 2011 | 3(11): 2221–2225 Food habits of Golden Jackal and Jungle Cat A. Majumder et al. Table 2. Dietary overlap between Golden Jackal and Jungle 80 73 Cat as shown by scat analysis in Pench Tiger Reserve, 70 Madhya Pradesh.
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