Small pack size imposes a trade-off between hunting and pup-guarding in the painted hunting dog Lycaon pictus

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 20-27

  Courchamp, Franck ^a,d   Rasmussen, Gregory S A ^b,c   Macdonald, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

African wild dog conservation; Allee effect; Cooperative hunting; Inverse density dependence; Lycaon pictus; Painted hunting dog; Pup guarding

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; GROUP SIZE; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL CARE;

ZIMBABWE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LYCAON PICTUS;

EID: 0036166933     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/13.1.20     Document Type: Article

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