Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness

Introduced predators are thought to be responsible for the decline and extinction of their native prey. The prey naivety hypothesis provides a mechanism for these declines, suggesting that native prey are vulnerable to introduced predators as their coevolutionary history is insufficiently long for antipredator behaviours to fully develop. The prey naivety hypothesis thus predicts that prey will be less responsive to introduced predators than to native predators. Australia’s endemic small mammals are thought to be vulnerable to predation by red foxes because they are less responsive to – or naive to – a predator with whom they have only co-occurred since the 19th century. To test whether nativeness determines antipredator behaviours we compared small mammal behavioural responses to fox scent outside (Australia) and inside the foxes’ native range (North America and Israel). We conducted giving-up density experiments in the deserts of these three regions and evaluated small mammal anti-pre..., , , This README file for dataset Data from: \"Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness\" was generated on 2023-12-12 by Eamonn Wooster

GENERAL INFORMATION

1\. Title of Dataset: Data from: Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness

2\. Corresponding Author Information

Name: Eamonn Wooster

3\. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date): 2018-2020

4\. Geographic location of data collection: Death Valley, USA. Arava, Isreal. Simpson and Painted Deserts, Australia.

5\. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: ARC DP180100272

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2\. Links to publications that cite or use the data: DOI:10.1111/ecog.07031

3\. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: NA

4\. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: NA

5\. Was data derived from another source? Wallach, Arian D., et al. \"Savviness of prey to introduced predators....