How depth alters detection and capture of buried prey: Exploitation of sea turtle eggs by mongooses

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1299-1306

  Leighton, Patrick A ^a   Horrocks, Julia A ^b   Kramer, Donald L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Cache recovery; Conservation; Hatching success; Herpestes auropunctatus javanicus; Invasive species; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

EGG PREDATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HATCHING; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAMMAL; MORTALITY; OLFACTORY CUE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; CHELONIIDAE; ERETMOCHELYS; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; HERPESTES AUROPUNCTATUS; HERPESTES JAVANICUS; HERPESTIDAE; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 70450227381     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp139     Document Type: Article

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