High hunting costs make African wild dogs vulnerable to kleptoparasitism by hyaenas

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6666, 1998, Pages 479-481

  Gorman, Martyn L ^a   Mills, Michael G ^b   Raath, Jacobus P ^b   Speakman, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b KRUGER NATIONAL PARK   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN WILD DOG; ENERGETIC COST; HUNTING; KLEPTOPARASITISM; SPOTTED HYANENA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; DOG; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CROCUTA CROCUTA; LYCAON PICTUS;

EID: 0032576742     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35131     Document Type: Article

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