Keywords
geo
geophagy
herbivores
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Accepted 2020-04-27
Published 2020-05-09
Abstract
Natural salt licks are places with high concentrations of minerals and clays, where various species perform geophagy. In this note, we present records of land mammals in a salt flat located in the middle basin of the Caquetá River, within the Nonuya Villazul indigenous reservation. Four trap chambers were used and a total of four mammal species were registered, of which the most frequent was Cuniculus paca. Three of the registered species have a mostly frugivorous diet and are commonly registered in Amazonian salts. Myrmecophaga tridactyla is the only registered mammal that does not perform geophagy. Natural salts are places of ecological and conservation importance, since in them diversity of mammals converge mainly herbivores, however, to understand the characteristics that influence the presence or abundance of these species in salty, a greater effort of sampling is necessary in these and other ecosystems with the presence of salty.
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