Articles

1. Mustelid mugshots: photographing facial masks of European polecats (Mustela putorius) for individual recognition and density estimation using camera traps

   • Tim R. Hofmeester
   • Nadine Erath
   • Henrik Thurfjell

   METHODS PAPER Open access 27 May 2024

   

2. Seasonal variation in the activity pattern of red squirrels and their mammalian predators

   • Nadine Kalb
   • Xenia Schlindwein
   • Christoph Randler

   ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 14 May 2024

   

3. A first species-wide phylogenetic analysis of small mammals from Costa Rica using mitochondrial cytochrome b

   • Alexander Gómez-Lépiz
   • Sara Sampaio
   • Jeremy B. Searle

   ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 25 April 2024

   

4. Dietary habits of the giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) in the Brazilian wetlands

   • Natália Teixeira Nascimento
   • Nina Attias
   • Arnaud Léonard Jean Desbiez

   ORIGINAL PAPER 12 April 2024

   

5. First occurrence of a reproductive group of golden jackal (Canis aureus moreoticus) in a densely populated area south of the Po River (Italy)

   • Tiziano Travain
   • Emanuele Fior
   • Francesco Nonnis Marzano

   SHORT COMMUNICATION 03 April 2024

   

6. Population fluctuations of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in a landscape with cumulative clearcutting

   • Thomas P. Sullivan
   • Druscilla S. Sullivan

   ORIGINAL PAPER 01 April 2024

   

7. Get out from my field! The role of agricultural crops in shaping the habitat selection by and suitability for the crested porcupine in Central Italy

   • Marcello Franchini
   • Lorenzo Frangini
   • Emiliano Mori

   ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 15 March 2024

   

8. Correction to: Do unpublished data help to redraw distributions? The case of the spectacled bear in Peru

   • Nereyda Falconi
   • John T. Finn
   • John F. Organ

   Correction 29 February 2024 Pages: 327 - 328

   

9. Some like it burnt: species differences in small mammal assemblage in a Mediterranean basin nearly 3 years after a major fire

   • Orlando Tomassini
   • Anna Aghemo
   • Alessandro Massolo

   ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 28 February 2024 Pages: 283 - 302

   

10. Drivers of functional diversity in small-bodied mammals across a deforestation frontier in the Southern Brazilian Amazon

    • Manoel Santos-Filho
    • Thalita Ribeiro
    • Ana Filipa Palmeirim

    ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 13 February 2024 Pages: 271 - 282

    

11. A new camera-trapping device, the Campascope, to study feeding behaviour of subterranean rodents

    • Hélène Lisse
    • Adrien Pinot

    METHODS PAPER 10 February 2024 Pages: 303 - 311

    

12. Size does not matter: natural history and sexual dimorphism of the striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus amazonicus) in Central Brazil

    • Giulianny A. Machado
    • Fernanda C. Azevedo
    • Frederico G. Lemos

    ORIGINAL PAPER 19 January 2024 Pages: 257 - 270

    

13. Relationships among North American deer based on mitochondrial DNA and ultraconserved elements, with comments on mito-nuclear discordance

    • Lukas B. Klicka
    • Nadje Najar
    • Robert M. Zink

    ORIGINAL PAPER 17 January 2024 Pages: 245 - 255

    

14. Interspecific social interaction between golden jackal (Canis aureus) and red fox (Vulpes vulpes)

    • Felix Böcker
    • Hannah Weber
    • Jennifer Hatlauf

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Open access 16 January 2024 Pages: 319 - 324

    

15. Correction to: Climate change threatens striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) distribution in Nepal

    • Shivish Bhandari
    • Binaya Adhikari
    • Dionisios Youlatos

    Correction 09 January 2024 Pages: 325 - 325

16. Description of the echolocation pulses of insectivorous bats with new records for Southwest Colombia

    • Johana Arévalo-Cortés
    • John Tulcan-Flores
    • Ronald A. Fernández-Gómez

    ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 09 January 2024 Pages: 231 - 244

    

17. Rapid and reliable method for identification of three medium-sized horseshoe bat species in Europe

    • Ivana Budinski
    • Branka Bajić
    • Jelena Blagojević

    SHORT COMMUNICATION 08 January 2024 Pages: 313 - 318

    

18. Fish on the platter! Dietary habits of fishing cats (Prionailurus viverrinus) in the Godavari Delta, India

    • Giridhar Malla
    • Paromita Ray
    • Kuppusamy Sivakumar

    ORIGINAL PAPER 02 January 2024 Pages: 221 - 230

    

19. Large hairy armadillo Chaetophractus villosus: the most recent mammal invader in the binational Tierra del Fuego Island

    • Fabian M. Jaksic

    REVIEW Open access 27 December 2023 Pages: 183 - 192

20. Phylogeography of the pallid ground squirrel (Spermophilus pallidicauda Satunin, 1903) as a consequence of Quaternary changes in the Mongolian open landscape ecosystems

    • Svetlana Yu. Kapustina
    • Yansanjav Adiya
    • Oleg V. Brandler

    ORIGINAL PAPER 22 December 2023 Pages: 205 - 219

    

21. Home range and resource selection of Virginia opossums in the rural southeastern United States

    • Jacob E. Hill
    • David A. Bernasconi
    • Guha Dharmarajan

    ORIGINAL PAPER 20 December 2023 Pages: 193 - 204

    

22. Genetic variation of European mouflon depends on admixture of introduced individuals

    • Elena Buzan
    • Boštjan Pokorny
    • Toni Safner

    ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 08 December 2023 Pages: 145 - 158

    

23. Calling up ghosts: acoustic playback of social vocalisations reveals complex communication in a cryptic bat and provides a promising tool for monitoring disturbance-sensitive species

    • Nicola Hanrahan
    • Christopher Turbill
    • Justin A. Welbergen

    ORIGINAL PAPER 05 December 2023 Pages: 59 - 69

    

24. Shifts in the trophic ecology of feral cats in the alpine ecosystem of an oceanic island: implications for the conservation of native biodiversity

    • Manuela Gómez-Alceste
    • Juan Carlos Rando

    ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 01 December 2023 Pages: 1 - 8

    

25. New records of White-lipped Peccaries in altered landscapes of the Brazilian Midwest

    • Roniel Freitas-Oliveira
    • Marco Antonio Guimarães-Silva
    • Alessandro Ribeiro Morais

    SHORT COMMUNICATION 29 November 2023 Pages: 177 - 182

    

26. Using the BirdNET algorithm to identify wolves, coyotes, and potentially their interactions in a large audio dataset

    • Daniel Sossover
    • Kelsey Burrows
    • Connor M. Wood

    METHODS PAPER 29 November 2023 Pages: 159 - 165

    

27. Characterization of recent wild pig-vehicle collisions in Georgia, USA

    • Jeremiah L. Psiropoulos
    • Emily Howe
    • Sophie C. McKee

    ORIGINAL PAPER 24 November 2023 Pages: 131 - 144

    

28. Tooth microwear pattern variation in karst and non-karst peninsular Southeast Asian murine rodents

    • Sirikorn Sripho
    • Thongchai Ngamprasertwong
    • Julien Claude

    ORIGINAL PAPER 20 November 2023 Pages: 115 - 130

    

29. Correction to: Explorative behavior allows the successful finding of ephemeral food resources in the wild

    • Martyna Wirowska
    • Karolina Iwińska
    • Jan S. Boratyński

    Correction Open access 09 November 2023 Pages: 99 - 99

30. Assessing habitat selection of the vulnerable Asian small-clawed otters in an anthropized riparian forest of eastern Bangladesh

    • Muntasir Akash
    • Mariano J. Feldman
    • Tania Zakir

    ORIGINAL PAPER 03 November 2023 Pages: 101 - 114

    

31. Testing the efficacy of the Heslinga live trap for small mammal community assessments

    • Oriol Palau
    • Ignasi Torre

    ORIGINAL PAPER 18 October 2023 Pages: 23 - 31

    

32. Explorative behavior allows the successful finding of ephemeral food resources in the wild

    • Martyna Wirowska
    • Karolina Iwińska
    • Jan S. Boratyński

    ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 17 October 2023 Pages: 89 - 98

    

33. Species delimitation and intraspecific diversification in recently diverged South American foxes

    • Eduardo J. Pizarro
    • Bernardita Julio-Kalajžić
    • Juliana A. Vianna

    ORIGINAL PAPER 16 October 2023 Pages: 71 - 87

    

34. First characterization of the echolocation calls of Myotis dinellii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

    • Camila S. González Noschese
    • M. Luz Olmedo
    • M. Mónica Díaz

    ORIGINAL PAPER 05 October 2023 Pages: 53 - 58

    

35. Trunks and treetops: integrating terrestrial and arboreal camera-trap surveys to document elusive mammal communities in India

    • Orvill Nazareth
    • Arjun Srivathsa
    • Vivek Ramachandran

    ORIGINAL PAPER 22 September 2023 Pages: 43 - 52

    

36. Volume of foliage tents affects harem size in Cynopterus sphinx living in a fission-fusion society

    • Venkatesh Nagarajan-Radha
    • Subanithi-Purnima Murugan
    • Paramanantha Swami Doss Devaraj

    SHORT COMMUNICATION 21 September 2023 Pages: 171 - 176

    

37. Beavers are not alone: parasitic assessment of released Eurasian beavers in Central Italy

    • Francesco Turillazzi
    • Emiliano Mori
    • Giuseppe Mazza

    ORIGINAL PAPER 21 September 2023 Pages: 33 - 41

    

38. Albinism in the common shrew Sorex araneus

    • Jan M. Wójcik
    • Rafał Kowalczyk
    • Jeremy Herman

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Open access 14 September 2023 Pages: 167 - 169

    

39. Evaluating the efficiency of different sampling techniques to survey non-flying small mammals in the Amazon

    • André L. M. Botelho
    • Paulo S. D’Andrea
    • Rosana Gentile

    ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 07 September 2023 Pages: 9 - 22

    

40. European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) as seed disperser in arid ecotones of Argentina: non-native herbivore facilitation of native and non-native plants

    • S. Yasmin Bobadilla
    • E. T. Olivares
    • M. F. Cuevas

    ORIGINAL PAPER 28 August 2023 Pages: 625 - 635

    

41. How many nights should acoustic detectors be set to estimate cave-exiting behavior of hibernating bats?

    • Jericho C. Whiting
    • Bill Doering
    • Ken Aho

    METHODS PAPER 23 August 2023 Pages: 647 - 652

    

42. Insights into the breeding ecology of wild-living European wildcats in the Cantabrian Mountains, Spain

    • Héctor Ruiz-Villar
    • José Vicente López-Bao
    • Francisco Palomares

    ORIGINAL PAPER 22 August 2023 Pages: 495 - 505

    

43. Home ranges and movement patterns of wild boars (Sus scrofa) at the northern edge of the species’ distribution range

    • E. Miettinen
    • M. Melin
    • M. Kunnasranta

    ORIGINAL PAPER Open access 21 August 2023 Pages: 611 - 623

    

44. A first attempt to track the genetic signature of colonization of the Mediterranean basin by the pygmy white-toothed shrew, Suncus etruscus (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae)

    • Riccardo Castiglia
    • Chiara Rotondi
    • Emiliano Mori

    SHORT COMMUNICATION 28 July 2023 Pages: 659 - 663

    

45. Forest dependency could be more important than dispersal capacity for habitat connectivity of four species of insectivorous bats inhabiting a highly anthropized region in central Mexico

    • Eduardo Vázquez-Rueda
    • Angela P. Cuervo-Robayo
    • Jorge Ayala-Berdon

    Original Paper 28 July 2023 Pages: 561 - 573

    

46. Form, function, and tissue proportions of the mustelid carnassial molar

    • Keegan R. Selig

    ORIGINAL PAPER 13 July 2023 Pages: 637 - 646

    

47. Den site selection by eastern spotted skunks (Spilogale putorius) in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina

    • Anna C. Siegfried
    • Stephen N. Harris
    • David S. Jachowski

    ORIGINAL PAPER 10 July 2023 Pages: 533 - 545

    

48. Variations in density of pine marten Martes martes populations according to forest fragmentation

    • Marina Mergey
    • Cécile Kaerle
    • Rémi Helder

    ORIGINAL PAPER 07 July 2023 Pages: 507 - 519

    

49. Mountain lion predation in a multi-prey system on private lands in Texas

    • Amanda M. Veals Dutt
    • Catherine C. Dennison
    • Louis A. Harveson

    ORIGINAL PAPER 30 June 2023 Pages: 481 - 493

    

50. Mink invasion in Chiloé Island, Chile: population genetics and Leptospira spp. detection in Neovison vison

    • Elkin Y. Suárez-Villota
    • Camila A. Quercia
    • José J. Nuñez

    ORIGINAL PAPER 28 June 2023 Pages: 521 - 531