Patch Use in Free-Ranging Goats: Does a Large Mammalian Herbivore Forage like Other Central Place Foragers?

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 967-974

  Shrader, Adrian M ^a,b   Kerley, Graham I H ^a   Brown, Joel S ^c   Kotler, Burt P ^d  

^a NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; DECISION MAKING; DOMESTIC SPECIES; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD QUALITY; GOAT; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; METABOLISM; PATCH USE; PATCHINESS; PERCEPTION; PREDATION RISK; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CAPRA HIRCUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84865965118     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02090.x     Document Type: Article

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