Differential provisioning roles, prey size, and prey abundance shape the dynamic feeding behavior of gray wolves

Abstract The demands of raising dependent young can influence the feeding behaviors of social carnivores, especially for individuals that are primarily responsible for provisioning young. We investigated how the feeding and provisioning behavior of a social carnivore, gray wolves (Canis lupus), are...

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Main Authors: Thomas D. Gable, Sean M. Johnson-Bice, Austin T. Homkes, Joseph K. Bump
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-10-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05419-4