Open AccessFoxes in trees: a threat for Australian arboreal fauna?
Author(s) -
Valentina S. A. Mella,
Clare McArthur,
Robert Frend,
Mathew S. Crowther
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
australian mammalogy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.432
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1836-7402
pISSN - 0310-0049
DOI - 10.1071/am16049
Subject(s) - arboreal locomotion , vulpes , fauna , marsupial , biology , mammal , ecology , monotreme , predator , predation , climbing , zoology , habitat , systematics , taxonomy (biology)
We document the first evidence of tree climbing by red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Australia. Camera traps recorded foxes in trees on the Liverpool Plains, New South Wales. This finding prompts a reassessment of the impact that this invasive predator has on Australian fauna: from purely terrestrial to also potentially arboreal.
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