How does a carnivore guild utilise a substantial but unpredictable anthropogenic food source? Scavenging on hunter-shot ungulate carcasses by wild dogs/dingoes, red foxes and feral cats in south-eastern Australia revealed by camera traps.
There is much interest in understanding how anthropogenic food resources subsidise carnivore populations.Carcasses of hunter-shot ungulates are a potentially substantial food source for mammalian carnivores.The sambar deer (Rusa unicolor) is a large (≥ 150 kg) exotic ungulate that can be hunted throughout the year in south-eastern Australia, and