Ranging patterns in white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum simum: implications for mating strategies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 349-356

  White, Angela M ^a,b   Swaisgood, Ronald R ^b   Czekala, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceratotherium simum simum; foraging; habitat choice; home range use; mate choice; mating systems; ranging pattern; resource distribution; white rhinoceros

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SPACE USE; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM; CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM SIMUM;

EID: 34547841579     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.12.011     Document Type: Article

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