Hide and seek in a rainforest canopy : when a fruit-eating carnivore (almost) met its top predator carnivore
Prey-predator interactions in the wild are spectacular. Common reported cases come from ground-dwelling animals, in open areas and by daylight. Here, we report, for the first time, a sequence with the nocturnal arboreal kinkajou (Potos flavus), being followed ca. 20 minutes apart by one of its predators, the puma (Puma concolor), 33 m aboveground in a rainforest in French Guiana.
Authors
- Lionel Picart
- Christophe Baltzinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2980-6238)
- Éric Guilbert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8319-6667)
- Pierre‐Michel Forget (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9252-974X)
- Malika Gottstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0359-7730)
- Raphaëlle Abensur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7842-1223)
- Valentine Alt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0649-4025)
- Coraline Pelon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5382-3743)
- Jocelyn Cazal
Institutions
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- Published
- 2026-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.11.05.763601
- Primary Topic
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Type
- preprint
Funders
- Labex DRIIHM
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
- Office Français de la Biodiversité
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement