Abstract

MARTINEZ-VAZQUEZ, Jesús; GONZALEZ-MONROY, Rosa María  and  DIAZ-DIAZ, Diana. Hábitos alimentarios del Coyote en el parque nacional Pico de Orizaba. Therya [online]. 2010, vol.1, n.2, pp.145-154. ISSN 2007-3364.  https://doi.org/10.12933/therya-10-4.

We examined the food habits of coyotes (Canis latrans) from the Pico de Orizaba National Park by analyzing 136 scat samples that were collected for 11 months in a 7 km transect. Coyote diet consisted mainly of mammals (48.96%), plants (20.28%), birds (6.76%) and insects (0.68%). Our results indicate that annual coyote diet consisted of 15 prey-species. Their diet is based mainly on the rodent Peromyscus melanotis (25.68%), followed by the tomato plant Lycopersium esculentum (11.48%), and the jack rabbit Lepus callotis (9.46%). In the dry season, P. melanotis was the main prey item (29.16%), followed by L. callotis (8.33%). The most important items in the diet of coyotes in the rainy season were P. melanotis (22.36%) and L. esculentum (14.47%). There was no significant variation in prey consumption between seasons.

Keywords : Food; scat; seasons; carnivore; Puebla.

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