Do lions Panthera leo actively select prey or do prey preferences simply reflect chance responses via evolutionary adaptations to optimal foraging?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Hayward, Matt W ^a   Hayward, Gina J ^a   Tambling, Craig J ^a   Kerley, Graham I H ^a  

^a NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; ELAND; ELEPHANT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HARTEBEEST; HUNTING; KUDO; LION; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL FORAGING; OSTRICH; PANTHERA LEO; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDATION; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PREY SELECTION; WARTHOG; ZEBRA; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

PANTHERA LEO;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LIONS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80052523830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023607     Document Type: Article

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