Testing the Sentinel Method: Live and Artificial Prey Display Contrasting Patterns of Predation Across an Urban Gradient
Yu Zeng, Haolin Yang, Yiheng Pan, Yuxuan Li, Dohee Kim, Haokun Wang, Jing Feng, Yuechen Huang, Yingjie Yin, Hanqing Zhao, Yuyang Wu, Craig R A Barnett, Catherine L Parr, Samantha C Patrick, Yi Zou, Emilio Pagani‐Núñez · 2025
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Description
Yu Zeng and co-authors test in 2025 if fake prey can stand in for live prey in counts of hunter hits in the wild. Fake worm prey are a wide used tool to gauge how hard hunters press on prey. Past checks on fake versus live gave mixed word, and city spans lacked a test.
Ten sites from wild to city ground in one Chinese city held the trial. More than two thousand fake and near four thousand live prey were set out, alone and mixed. Hit marks rose with the team's index in one form. Live and fake prey gave split hit forms across the span.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yu Zeng, Haolin Yang, Yiheng Pan, Yuxuan Li, Dohee Kim, Haokun Wang, Jing Feng, Yuechen Huang, Yingjie Yin, Hanqing Zhao, Yuyang Wu, Craig R A Barnett, Catherine L Parr, Samantha C Patrick, Yi Zou, Emilio Pagani‐Núñez |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |