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Majumder, A.; Sankar, K.; Qureshi, Q.; Basu, S.
Food habits and temporal activity patterns of the Golden Jackal _Canis aureus_ and the Jungle Cat _Felis chaus_ in Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India
2014 Journal of Threatened Taxa (3): 2221-2225
Food habits and temporal activity patterns of the Golden Jackal _Canis aureus _and the Jungle Cat _Felis chaus _were studied between January 2008 and June 2009 in Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) (79009'-79022'E & 21038-21050'N), Madhya Pradesh, central India. Pench Tiger Reserve connects Kanha with Satpura Tiger Reserve and forms a continuous forest patch in central India which offers one of the important habitats of large and meso-carnivores in the Indian subcontinent. The overall goal of the present study is (i) to determine the frequency of occurrence of different food items in the diet of these two meso-carnivores in PTR, (ii) to examine the implications of these diet profiles and temporal activity for understanding resource partitioning patterns and ecological sympatry among them in PTR.
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