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The African wild dog : behavior, ecology, and conservation /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Monographs in behavior and ecology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.