Hans Brinkmann, a while back you mentioned "marten" as a predator on squirrels in Germany. Can you tell us something of their habitat and what are the limits of human population density they will tolerate?
In North America we have a "pine marten" which is a tree-hunting squirrel predator related to the weasel but bigger. From what I have read it prefers areas with a lot of pine trees, needs a big range (has a low population density itself), and does not tolerate many people in its range - although I have encountered one or two suggestions that its tolerance for people may be increasing.
I wonder (cautiously) whether a people-tolerant marten could be useful
in dealing with the near-plague of squirrels we have locally.
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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