Records of free-roaming dogs with camera traps in the Osorno Province, southern Chile
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https://doi.org/10.54830/bmnhn.v70.n2.2021.204Keywords:
bobine and ovine cattle, camera traps, domestic dogs, southern ChileAbstract
Before the recent attacks by packs of dogs on bovine cattle reported in the press, their abundance was monitored in the province of Osorno, southern Chile. Moreover, dogs can be vectors of distemper canine virus and parvovirus to wild mammals with which they share the same habitat. In austral spring 2020 and austral summer 2021, sampling stations with 12 camera traps were set up in the coastal foothills and 13 in the Andean foothills. In these seasons 127 overall photographs of domestic dogs were obtained, corresponding to 66 different animals, most of them adults.
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