Prey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia.

Accurate information about the diet of large carnivores that are elusive and inhabit inaccessible terrain, is required to properly design conservation strategies. Predation on livestock and retaliatory killing of predators have become serious issues throughout the range of the snow leopard. Several...

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Autores principales:	Wasim Shehzad, Thomas Michael McCarthy, Francois Pompanon, Lkhagvajav Purevjav, Eric Coissac, Tiayyba Riaz, Pierre Taberlet
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:64e11e69d36246338760b1436819fcb72021-11-18T07:26:27ZPrey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0032104https://doaj.org/article/64e11e69d36246338760b1436819fcb72012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22393381/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Accurate information about the diet of large carnivores that are elusive and inhabit inaccessible terrain, is required to properly design conservation strategies. Predation on livestock and retaliatory killing of predators have become serious issues throughout the range of the snow leopard. Several feeding ecology studies of snow leopards have been conducted using classical approaches. These techniques have inherent limitations in their ability to properly identify both snow leopard feces and prey taxa. To examine the frequency of livestock prey and nearly-threatened argali in the diet of the snow leopard, we employed the recently developed DNA-based diet approach to study a snow leopard population located in the Tost Mountains, South Gobi, Mongolia. After DNA was extracted from the feces, a region of ∼100 bp long from mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene was amplified, making use of universal primers for vertebrates and a blocking oligonucleotide specific to snow leopard DNA. The amplicons were then sequenced using a next-generation sequencing platform. We observed a total of five different prey items from 81 fecal samples. Siberian ibex predominated the diet (in 70.4% of the feces), followed by domestic goat (17.3%) and argali sheep (8.6%). The major part of the diet was comprised of large ungulates (in 98.8% of the feces) including wild ungulates (79%) and domestic livestock (19.7%). The findings of the present study will help to understand the feeding ecology of the snow leopard, as well as to address the conservation and management issues pertaining to this wild cat.Wasim ShehzadThomas Michael McCarthyFrancois PompanonLkhagvajav PurevjavEric CoissacTiayyba RiazPierre TaberletPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 2, p e32104 (2012)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Wasim Shehzad Thomas Michael McCarthy Francois Pompanon Lkhagvajav Purevjav Eric Coissac Tiayyba Riaz Pierre Taberlet Prey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia.
description	Accurate information about the diet of large carnivores that are elusive and inhabit inaccessible terrain, is required to properly design conservation strategies. Predation on livestock and retaliatory killing of predators have become serious issues throughout the range of the snow leopard. Several feeding ecology studies of snow leopards have been conducted using classical approaches. These techniques have inherent limitations in their ability to properly identify both snow leopard feces and prey taxa. To examine the frequency of livestock prey and nearly-threatened argali in the diet of the snow leopard, we employed the recently developed DNA-based diet approach to study a snow leopard population located in the Tost Mountains, South Gobi, Mongolia. After DNA was extracted from the feces, a region of ∼100 bp long from mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene was amplified, making use of universal primers for vertebrates and a blocking oligonucleotide specific to snow leopard DNA. The amplicons were then sequenced using a next-generation sequencing platform. We observed a total of five different prey items from 81 fecal samples. Siberian ibex predominated the diet (in 70.4% of the feces), followed by domestic goat (17.3%) and argali sheep (8.6%). The major part of the diet was comprised of large ungulates (in 98.8% of the feces) including wild ungulates (79%) and domestic livestock (19.7%). The findings of the present study will help to understand the feeding ecology of the snow leopard, as well as to address the conservation and management issues pertaining to this wild cat.
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author	Wasim Shehzad Thomas Michael McCarthy Francois Pompanon Lkhagvajav Purevjav Eric Coissac Tiayyba Riaz Pierre Taberlet
author_facet	Wasim Shehzad Thomas Michael McCarthy Francois Pompanon Lkhagvajav Purevjav Eric Coissac Tiayyba Riaz Pierre Taberlet
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title	Prey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia.
title_short	Prey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia.
title_full	Prey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia.
title_fullStr	Prey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia.
title_full_unstemmed	Prey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia.
title_sort	prey preference of snow leopard (panthera uncia) in south gobi, mongolia.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2012
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Prey preference of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia.

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