The vulture in the sky and the hominin on the land: Three million years of human–vulture interaction

Anthrozoos

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 449-468

  Morelli, Federico ^a,b   Kubicka, Anna Maria ^c   Tryjanowski, Piotr ^d   Nelson, Emma ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Homo; Hunting strategy; Interspecies interactions; Scavengers

Indexed keywords

HOMINID; HUNTING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; RAPTOR; SCAVENGER;

AVES;

EID: 84953856346     PISSN: 08927936     EISSN: 17530377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2015.1052279     Document Type: Review

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