Running the gauntlet: a predator-prey game between sharks and two age classes of seals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1901-1917

  Laroche, R Karl ^a   Kock, Alison A ^b,c   Dill, Lawrence M ^a   Oosthuizen, W Herman ^d  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus; behaviourally mediated indirect interaction (BMII); Cape fur seal; Carcharodon carcharias; dynamic programming; game theory; predator prey; South Africa; white shark

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; GAME THEORY; PINNIPED; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SHARK;

ARCTOCEPHALUS PUSILLUS PUSILLUS; CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS; CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 56049109025     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.06.025     Document Type: Article

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