Retaliatory killing and human perceptions of Madagascar’s largest carnivore and livestock predator, the fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

• Samuel D. Merson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: samuel.merson@zsl.org

  Affiliation Zoological Society of London, Outer Circle, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1544-4790

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• Luke J. Dollar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Environment & Sustainability, Center for the Environment, Catawba College, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Paul J. Johnson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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• David W. Macdonald

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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