Effects of mongoose odors on rat capture success
M E Tobin1, R M Engeman, R T Sugihara
1US Department of Agriculture, Denver Wildlife Research Center, PO Box 10880, 96721, Hilo, Hawaii.
Journal of Chemical Ecology
|November 16, 2013
Abstract:
Wild rats,Rattus norvegicus, R. exulans, andR. rattus, avoided wire-cage live traps that had previously captured mongooses,Herpestes auropunctatus. Replacing traps soiled by mongooses with clean traps would increase rat capture success and reduce a source of experimental bias.


