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Aggarwal, Mohit
- Trash on the Menu:Patterns of Animal Visitation and Foraging Behaviour at Garbage Dumps
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1 School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067, IN
2 Asian Adventures, New Delhi 110 065, IN
3 Nature Science Initiative, 36 Curzon Road, Dehradun 248 001, IN
1 School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067, IN
2 Asian Adventures, New Delhi 110 065, IN
3 Nature Science Initiative, 36 Curzon Road, Dehradun 248 001, IN
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Current Science, Vol 115, No 12 (2018), Pagination: 2322-2326Abstract
Garbage accumulation around terrestrial nature re-serves poses a risk to many species. We monitored animal visitation patterns and foraging behaviour at garbage dumps near a forested area in Uttarakhand Himalaya, India, to examine plastic consumption by animals. We recorded 32 species of birds and mam-mals visiting garbage dumps and classified them as ‘peckers’, ‘handlers’ and ‘gulpers’ based on their foraging behaviour. Gulpers (carnivores and rumi-nants) were observed feeding more frequently and spent longer durations (3.8 ± 0.2 min) at garbage dumps. Our results highlight the importance of at-source segregation of waste to prevent wild and domestic animals from ingesting hazardous wastes, including plastics at garbage dumps.Keywords
Animal Visitation, Foraging Behaviour, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Unsegregated Garbage.Full Text
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