Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains
Group Living in an Asocial Species
500 pages, 34 halftones, 102 line drawings, 90 tables 6 x 9
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1994
Series: Wildlife Behavior and Ecology series
Cloth $102.00
ISBN: 9780226094335
Published August 1994
Paper $40.00
ISBN: 9780226094342
Published August 1994
Contents 1 Grouping and Cooperative Hunting 2 Serengeti, and the Taxonomy and Natural History of Cheetahs 3 Sampling Methods and Techniques 4 Female Reproduction and Cub Mortality 5 Costs of Family Life for Mothers 6 Benefits of Family Life for Cubs 7 Hunting and Grouping in Adolescence 8 The Mating System 9 Territoriality and Male Group Size 10 Foraging Success and Cooperative Hunting in Male Groups 11 The Behavior of Males in Coalitions 12 Evolution and Ecology of Cheetahs 13 Conservation of Cheetahs in the Wild and in Captivity
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