Energetics‐informed behavioral states reveal the drive to kill in African leopards
Abstract The drive to kill prey is central to understanding the population viability and ecological effects of large carnivores. This drive is modulated by behaviorally determined energetic expenditures, yet current methods of estimating the energetics of terrestrial carnivores are too coarse to inf...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Ecosphere |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1850 |