Ungulates rely less on visual cues, but more on adapting movement behaviour, when searching for forage

Finding suitable forage patches in a heterogeneous landscape, where patches change dynamically both spatially and temporally could be challenging to large herbivores, especially if they have no a priori knowledge of the location of the patches. We tested whether three large grazing herbivores with a...

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Main Authors: Jan A. Venter, Herbert H.T. Prins, Alla Mashanova, Rob Slotow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-05-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3178.pdf