Mammals as predators : the proceedings of a symposium held by the Zoological Society of London and the Mammal Society, London, 22nd and 23rd November 1991 /
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Published for the Zoological Society of London by Clarendon Press,
1993.
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Symposia of the Zoological Society of London ; no. 65. |
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Table of Contents:
- Legs and locomotion of carnivora / R. McNeill Alexander
- Cranial and dental adaptations to predation in canids / Blaire van Valkenburgh, Klaus-Peter Koepfli
- Evolution of echolocation for predation / J.R. Speakman
- Carnivore life histories: a re-analysis in the light of new models / John L. Gittleman
- Ontogeny of hunting behaviour of otters (Lutra lutra L.) in a marine environment / Jon Watt
- Tiger predatory behaviour, ecology and conservation / John Seidensticker, Charles McDougal
- Hunting success of lions in a semi-arid environment / P.E. Stander, S.D. Albon
- Badger socialty: models of spatial grouping / Rosie Woodroffe, David W. MacDonald
- Otter numbers and fish productivity in rivers in north-east Scotland / H. Kruuk [and others]
- Effects of changes in prey availability on lion predation in a large natural ecosystem in northern Botswana / P.C. Viljoen
- Urban foxes (Vulpes vulpes): food acquisition, time and energy budgeting of a generalized predator / Glen Saunders [and others]
- Foraging strategies of shrews: interactions between small predators and their prey / Sara Churchfield.
- (cont) Prey apportionment and related ecological relationships between large carnivores in Kruger National Park / M.G.L. Mills, H.C. Biggs
- Post-dispersal seed predation by small mammals / Philip Eric Hulme
- Problems of reintroducing carnivores / D.W. Yalden
- Paradigms for managing carnivores: the case of the sea otter / James A. Estes, Galen B. Rathbun, Glenn R. Vanblaricom
- Social organization in martens: an inflexible system? / David Balharry
- Snares, commuting hyaenas and migratory herbivores: humans as predators in the Serengeti / Heribert Hofer, Marion L. East, Kenneth L.I. Campbell
- Humans and big cats as predators in the neotropics / Jeffrey P. Jorgenson, Kent H. Redford
- Jaguar predation and conservation: cattle mortality caused by felines on three ranches in the Venezuelan Llanos / Rafael Hoogesteijn, Almira Hoogesteijn, Edgardo Mondolfi
- Management of Asiatic lions in the Gir Forest, India / Ravi Chellam, A.J.T. Johnsingh
- Home range of leopards and their impact on livestock on Kenyan ranches / Fumi Mizutani.
- (cont) Control of canid populations / Stephen Harris, Glen Saunders
- Wild and domestic canids as reservoirs of American visceral leishmaniasis in Amazonia / D.W. MacDonald, O. Courtenay.