Trade-offs between foraging and predation risk determine habitat use in a desert baboon population

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 667-686

  Cowlishaw, Guy ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESERT BABOON; FORAGING; HABITAT USE; LEOPARD; LION; PREDATION RISK; TRADE-OFF;

PANTHERA LEO; PANTHERA PARDUS; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS URSINUS;

EID: 0031107090     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0298     Document Type: Article

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