Toxic towns: Drivers of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in an urban edge carnivore.

Caracals (Caracal caracal) in and around Cape Town are attracted to forage on the urban edge, where they face anticoagulant rodenticides exposure risk.

We use generalized linear models to investigate the liver concentration and diversity of anticoagulant rodenticides in 102 caracals within a global biodiversity hotspot.

We assess sex and age relationships, as well as their association with habitat types and urban features to identify exposure routes and landscape drivers of risk.

Anticoagulant rodenticides present a cryptic threat to urban wildlife populations already vulnerable to increasing habitat loss and anthropogenic sources of mortality.