African wildcat overmarks a caracal's scent mark

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Shot Date: 2017/02/13
Shot Location: Northern Botswana

species
Felis silvestris cafra and Caracal caracal

Key Words
countermark
semiochemistry
inter-specific
scent markiing
urine marking

Peter Apps
2018/12/18 submitted

Animalia >Chordata >Mammalia >Carinvora >Felidae >Felis >

A camera trapping video captures a caracal (Caracal caracal) urine-marking on a bush track, and the following night an African wildcat (Felis silvestris cafra) sniffs the caracal's scent and then urinates on top of it.

Referenced in: P. Apps, K. Rafiq, and J. W. McNutt 2019. Do carnivores have a world wide web of interspecific scent signals ? Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XIV.

(Data No.momo181217fs01b)

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