Seasonal resource partitioning between neighboring cougars in a multiprey system
Siobhan Darlington, Karen E Hodges, T J Gooliaff, Samuel T Foster, Michael J Noonan, Adam T Ford · 2026
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Siobhan Darlington and colleagues test a 2026 ecology study of how neighboring cougars divide food in a multi-prey landscape in British Columbia's southern interior. Analyzing 875 kill sites from 27 females and 11 males plus prey data from 146 cameras, the team tested whether diet similarity tracks sex, season, prey availability, and home range overlap.
Males killed larger prey like moose and elk while females killed more deer, with deer species differing where large prey ran scarce. Female pairs supported resource partitioning while male-female pairs supported competition, and diets diverged most in summer when ranges expanded. The work shows how sex, season, and overlap jointly shape predator diets.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Siobhan Darlington, Karen E Hodges, T J Gooliaff, Samuel T Foster, Michael J Noonan, Adam T Ford |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |