Dear Mammalogists, This is a repetition of an earlier e-mail, to which I have not received many replies. I would appreciate any answers / ideas / references (pdf). Are there any available studies?
The questions are: 1) Which small mammals eat slugs (or snails) and what is their percentage in diet?. 2) In which habitats do these small mammals occur or 'hunt?'. 3) When eating e.g. slugs, will small mammals ingest attached (to the slime) particles like small stones, wood, or other attached particles, slug poison-pellets, or rather scrape them off...? I hereby define "small mammals" as rodents and eulipotyphla (former insectivores). Werner -- Dr. Werner Haberl Former Chair, Insectivore Specialist Group, IUCN Hamburgerstrasse 11/17 A-1050 Vienna, Austria Phone & Fax: (+431) 941 13 13 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Shrew Shrine: <http://members.vienna.at/shrew> or new: http://members.chello.at/natura The Dormouse Hollow: http://www.glirarium.org/dormouse
