Keywords :
Diet, Habitat use, Viverrid, Sakaerat Environmental Research, Station
บทคัดย่อ :
The purposes of this study were to investigate the diet and habitat use of viverrids at Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Nakhon Ratchasima province. Data on viverrids were obtained by live trapping, sign observations, camera trapping and scat collection along the roads and fire breaks from January to December 2008. Common palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) and small Indian civet (Viverricula indica) were encountered during study. Data from sign surveys were used to interpret habitat use. Scat was analyzed for food items and used to calculate seasonal diet. Viverrids used dry evergreen forest, random use in dry dipterocarp forest and avoidanced plantation and bamboo forest. Small mammals and fruits were the major diet of viverrids, especially yellow rajah rat (Maxomys surifer). The diets of viverrids varied among seasons, depended on abundance and availability of food items.
เอกสารอ้างอิง :
Aroon, S. (2008). Diet and habitat use of viverrid group at Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Nakhon Ratchasima (Doctoral dissertation, Environmental Biology, Suranaree University of Technology).
