Achilles' heel of sociality revealed by energetic poverty trap in cursorial hunters

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 508-518

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Cooperative hunting; Cope's rule; Evolution; Life history trade off; Lycaon pictus; Sociality

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WILD ANIMAL; ZIMBABWE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CANIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ZIMBABWE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LYCAON PICTUS;

EID: 53149118202     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590965     Document Type: Article

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