Resource dispersion and badger population density in Mediterranean woodlands: Is food, water or geology the limiting factor?

Article Abstract:

The dispersion of the three resources most plausibly hypothesized to limit badger population density and, perhaps, to affect their spatial organization namely food, surface water, and suitable soil to dig setts is measured. 74 percent, the majority of the badgers' food consisted of fruits and arthropods, which are associated with two habitat types, olive groves and orchards/vegetable gardens.

Food and nutrition, Animal populations, Population density, Mediterranean region, Foraging, Foraging (Animal feeding behavior)

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The distribution of Eurasian badger, Meles meles, setts in a high-density area: field observations contradict the sett dispersion hypothesis

Article Abstract:

Investigation of the factors determining diurnal resting den, or sett, location and selection by Eurasian badgers Meles meles L. was conducted. The results indicated that badgers preferentially selected sites with sandy, well-drained soils and there was no evidence that set morphology was affected by the surrounding sett site habitat characteristics.

Habitat (Ecology), Habitats, Animal ecology

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The function of facial masks in "midguild" carnivores

Article Abstract:

A group of medium sized carnivores possess conspicuously colored facial markings or masks. This facial coloration is most compatible with the apostemic warning hypothesis and functions to deter predation by larger carnivores.

United States, Carnivora, Carnivores

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