Heading for the hills: risk avoidance drives den site selection in African wild dogs.
Compared to their main competitors, African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) have inferior competitive abilities and interspecific competition is a serious fitness-limiting factor. Lions (Panthera leo) are the dominant large carnivore in African savannah ecosystems and wild dogs avoid them both spatially a...
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Autores principales: | Craig R Jackson, R John Power, Rosemary J Groom, Emmanuel H Masenga, Ernest E Mjingo, Robert D Fyumagwa, Eivin Røskaft, Harriet Davies-Mostert |
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Lenguaje: | EN |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/0c25d5b9651844cda7034d5ec834910a |
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