A survey is launched to analyze the conflict between the Iberian wolf and livestock in Spain and the impact of conditioned aversion

Researchers from the Wildlife Toxicology and Wildlife Ecology and Management Research Groups of the Institute for Research in Game Resources (IREC) have launched a survey to delve into the analysis of the conflict of livestock management and attacks by predators such as wolves. The survey is part of the research work that has been carried out for years with the aim of developing tools, based on conditioned aversion, to reduce conflicts generated by the impact of certain predators on prey of interest for human activities, such as game species or livestock, as they have made known on their social networks. Conditioned aversion consists of generating in an animal a rejection towards a specific type of food following a specific encounter with said food that generates some type of intense and brief discomfort, which will cause that in subsequent encounters with said food, the animal, in a totally unconscious way, rejects its consumption as a result of the previous negative experience. ...