野生状態で3,000頭しか生息していない絶滅危惧種キューバワニの保護増殖施設において，2022年にワニ幼体145頭がイエネコに捕食された．キューバワニの脅威としてのイエネコのこの影響について論文発表があり，LiveScienceが報道しています．
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報道
Feral cats ate critically endangered baby crocodiles in Cuba, study suggests
Two biologists say 145 young Cuban crocodiles that were taken by predators in fall 2022 were killed by feral cats.
論文
Etiam Pérez-Fleitas, and Gustavo Sosa Rodríguez. 2024. Feral cats, a new threat to the Cuban Crocodile, Crocodylus rhombifer Cuvier, 1807 in Cuba? . Herpetology Notes, volume 17: 225-227 (2024)