Sociality in Rancho La Brea Smilodon: Arguments favour 'evidence' over 'coincidence'

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 563-564

  Van Valkenburgh, Blaire ^a   Maddox, Tom ^b   Funston, Paul J ^c   Mills, Michael G L ^d   Grether, Gregory F ^a   Carbone, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CARCASS; CARNIVORE; CAT; HERBIVORE; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; LION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

SMILODON;

EID: 67749088281     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0261     Document Type: Note

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