Sexual segregation in ungulates: A comparative test of three hypotheses

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 77-96

  Ruckstuhl, K E ^a   Neuhaus, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity budgets; Forage selection; Predation risk; Ruminants; Sexual segregation; Social and habitat segregation; Sociality; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BOVIDS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING; HABITAT SELECTION; HYPOTHESIS; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; REVIEW; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNGULATE;

BOVIDAE; CAPRA IBEX; MAMMALIA; ORYX; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0036183897     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793101005814     Document Type: Review

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