Foraging strategy of a generalist predator toward a special prey: Coyote predation on sheep

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 299-306

  Sacks, Benjamin N ^a,b   Neale, Jennifer C C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Canis latrans; Coyote; Foraging; Generalist predator; Prey selection; Sheep; Specialist predator

Indexed keywords

CANID; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENERALIST; PREY SELECTION;

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS LATRANS; CERVIDAE; LAMB; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; SCATOPHAGIDAE (FISHES); VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036164261     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0299:FSOAGP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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