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| Anile, S.; Devillard, S.; Nielsen, C.K.; Valvo, M.L. | |
| Record of a 10-year old European Wildcat _Felis silvestris silvestris_ Schreber, 1777 (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) from Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy | |
| 2020 Journal of Threatened Taxa (12): 15272-15275 | |
Information on longevity is key to the understanding of population biology of a species (Healy et al. 2014) and is being collected by researchers across taxa (Cutler 1979; Wilkinson & South 2002; De Magalhaes & Costa 2009; Gonzalez-Lagos et al. 2010; Tidiere et al. 2016). Longevity data of wildlife can be collected through long-term monitoring programs (Smith et al. 2017), but is often difficult to apply to rare and elusive species, such as small carnivores. Alternatively, longevity data can also be collected both from dead animals by using cementum annuli to estimate the age of death (Kamler & Macdonald 2006) and from species held in captivity, although it is well-known that captive animals generally live longer than those in the wild (Ricklefs & Cadena 2007; Tidiere et al. 2016). Within the Felidae there is a consistent bias in the scientific community to study larger species rather than smaller ones (Brodie 2009; Macdonald et al. 2010; Anile & Devillard 2015, 2018), and hence scientific data on life history traits for smaller species are lacking. |
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