Protecting prey from predators using sensory tactics

使用感官策略保护猎物免受捕食者侵害

• 批准号: DE220101316
• 负责人: Dr Catherine Price
• 金额: $ 26.47万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-07-12 至 2027-07-11
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE220101316
• 关键词: Protecting; prey; predators; using; sensory

This project aims to develop new approaches to prevent the extinction of threatened native species from invasive predators, such as rats, pigs, cats and foxes. Many native species are hard to see but vulnerable to being found by predators with powerful senses of smell and hearing. By harnessing the sensory cues of prey that predators use when hunting, this project expects to discover olfactory and auditory techniques that prevent predators finding threatened species. In doing so, the project intends to provide new perspectives on how animals find food using multiple senses, and lead the recovery of threatened species in areas where predators remain within Australia and globally.

该项目旨在开发新的方法，以防止侵入性捕食者（例如大鼠，猪，猫和狐狸）灭绝受威胁的本地物种。许多本地物种很难看到，但很容易被捕食者发现，具有强烈的气味和听力感。通过利用捕食者在狩猎时使用的猎物的感官提示，该项目希望发现嗅觉和听觉技术，以防止捕食者发现受威胁物种。 在这样做的过程中，该项目旨在提供有关动物如何利用多种感官找到食物的新观点，并带领威胁物种在捕食者留在澳大利亚和全球范围内的地区的恢复。