What determines the attack distance of a stalking predator?

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 957-963

  Yachi, Shigeo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attack distance; Merit of proximity; Merit of surprise; Stalking predation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042526960     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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