Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 341 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780691207001
,
0691207003
Series Statement:
Monographs in behavior and ecology
Content:
History and natural history -- The Selous, the study population, and general methods -- Home ranges and habitat selection -- Cooperative hunting and the evolution of sociality -- Prey selection -- Ungulate herd sizes and the risk of predation by wild dogs -- Demography--survival and reproduction -- Dispersal -- Reproductive suppression, social stress, and the behavioral and endocrine correlates of rank -- Patterns of relatedness and the fitness consequences of dispersal, philopatry, and reproductive suppression -- Interspecific competition with larger carnivores -- Infectious diseases -- Extinction risk and conservation.
Content:
This book is based on a six year study of African wild dogs, lycaon pictus, in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, the largest protected area in Africa and one of the least-studied
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index
Additional Edition:
0691016550
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Creel, Scott, 1962- African wild dog Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©2002
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
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