Instantaneous energetics of puma kills reveal advantage of felid sneak attacks

Science

Volumn 346, Issue 6205, 2014, Pages 81-85

  Williams, Terrie M ^a   Wolfe, Lisa ^b   Davis, Tracy ^b   Kendall, Traci ^a   Richter, Beau ^a   Wang, Yiwei ^a   Bryce, Caleb ^a   Elkaim, Gabriel Hugh ^c   Wilmers, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Wildlife Health International   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLISM; PREDATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUMA; RUNNING;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; ENERGY METABOLISM; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PUMA; RUNNING;

EID: 84907524368     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1254885     Document Type: Article

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