Do wild carnivores forage for prey or for nutrients?: Evidence for nutrient-specific foraging in vertebrate predators

BioEssays

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 701-709

  Kohl, Kevin D ^a   Coogan, Sean C P ^b   Raubenheimer, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Diet choice; Predator prey interactions; Prey quality; Prey selection

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; LIPID; PROTEIN; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CALORIE; CARNIVORE; DOMESTICATION; FISH; FOOD; FORAGE; FORAGING; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY; MACRONUTRIENT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY; VERTEBRATE; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84929513215     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201400171     Document Type: Article

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