I'm not falling for that: Boldness and trappability of small mammals decline in urban reserves

We aimed to analyse the influence of urbanisation and environmental variables (i.e., moonlight and temperature) on the activity levels, boldness, and trappability of small mammals. We live-trapped small mammals in five urban reserves, each paired with a natural forest counterpart within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales, Australia. We used Elliot traps paired with camera traps to observe the activity, boldness, and trappability of small mammals. This dataset includes all the tagged camera-trap captures, the curated CSV files obtained from the images, as well as the data obtained from the captures in the Elliot traps. We found that the activity of small mammals did not differ between the forest and urban reserve sites. However, we found that the most active species in urban reserves was the exotic Rattus rattus, whereas R. fuscipes was the most active species in forest sites. We found that the small mammals in the urban reserves were less bold and had lower trappability th..., , # I'm not falling for that: Boldness and trappability of small mammals decline in urban reserves

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.18931zd8w](10.5061/dryad.18931zd8w)

## Description of the data and file structure

### File: tagged.zip

Description: Zip folder of the camera trapping stations. Each folder contains pictures tagged in Digikamversion 8.5.0 ([https://www.digikam.org](https://www.digikam.org)) with the variables used in the study.

Folders:

* K-1-A1 to U-5-E2-2 are IDs of the camera trapping stations.
* Folder K-5-A10-NW was included intentionally to depict the only camera trapping station with a technical failure.

### File: 20250208_visit_interaction_pa_v2.csv

Description: Data on visits and interactions of small mammals with Elliot traps

Variables

* site_type: forest vs urban reserves
* species: small mammal species identified in the camera traps
* species_origin: wether the small mammal species is native or exotic 
* moonlight_percentage: percentage of moonlight on the sam...,