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Description: |
xii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: History and natural history -- The Selous, the study population, and general methods -- Home ranges and habitat selection -- Cooperative hunting and the evolution of sociality -- Prey selection -- Ungulate herd sizes and the risk of predation by wild dogs -- Demography--survival and reproduction -- Dispersal -- Reproductive suppression, social stress, and the behavioral and endocrine correlates of rank -- Patterns of relatedness and the fitness consequences of dispersal, philopatry, and reproductive suppression -- Interspecific competition with larger carnivores -- Infectious diseases -- Extinction risk and conservation. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
This book is based on a six year study of African wild dogs, lycaon pictus, in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, the largest protected area in Africa and one of the least-studied. |
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Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/prin051/2001051034.html |