
%0 Journal Article
%A Triggs, B 
%A Brunner, H 
%A Cullen, JM 
%T The Food of Fox, Dog and Cat in Croajingalong National Park, South-Eastern Victoria.
%J Wildlife Research
%D 1984/10/01
%V 11
%N 3
%P 491-499
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/WR9840491
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WR9840491 
%X The diet of foxes, dogs and cats living in Croajingalong National Park in extreme south-easten Victoria was studied during 1979 and 1980. From 1397 scats collected over 20 months, remains of 22 indigenous and 7 introduced mammal species were identified. Remains of ringtail possums Pseudocheirus peregrinus predominated in the scats from all three predators (fox 58%, cat 56% and dog 38%). Other main prey species for the fox and cat were Antechinus spp.(24% and 15% respectively) and Rattus spp. (15% and 19%) and for the dog two species of wallabies, Macropus rufogriseus and Wallabia bicolor (34%), wombat Vombatus ursinus (11%), Antechinus spp.(l5%) and Rattus spp.(10%). Nonmammalian items for the three predators were birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceans, molluscs and plant material. 
