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，以防止受威胁的本土物种因入侵的捕食者，如老鼠、猪、猫和狐狸而灭绝。许多本土物种很难被看到，但很容易被具有强大嗅觉和听觉的捕食者发现。通过利用捕食者在狩猎时使用的猎物的感官线索，该项目有望发现阻止捕食者发现受威胁物种的嗅觉和听觉技术。通过这样做，该项目旨在为动物如何使用多种感官寻找食物提供新的视角，并在澳大利亚和全球范围内捕食者仍然存在的地区引领受威胁物种的复苏。