Prey preferences of modern human hunter-gatherers [PDF]
Food Webs, 2021 Abstract Understanding traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyles in our modern world is fundamental to our understanding of their viability, as well as the role of humans as predators in structuring ecosystems. Here, we examine the factors that drive prey preferences of modern hunter-gatherer people by reviewing 85 published studies from 161 tropical ...
Bugir, Cassandra K. +7 more
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An objective approach to determining the weight ranges of prey preferred by and accessible to the five large African carnivores. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Broad-scale models describing predator prey preferences serve as useful departure points for understanding predator-prey interactions at finer scales.
Hayley S Clements +3 more
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Do lions Panthera leo actively select prey or do prey preferences simply reflect chance responses via evolutionary adaptations to optimal foraging? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Research on coursing predators has revealed that actions throughout the predatory behavioral sequence (using encounter rate, hunting rate, and kill rate as proxy measures of decisions) drive observed prey preferences.
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Diversity, 2022 Niche partitioning studies are essential to understand the mechanisms that allow ecologically similar species to coexist. The Rhone streber (Zingel asper) and the European bullhead (Cottus gobio) are both benthic riverine fishes that consume ...
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Diet of Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) in Bulgaria: composition, distribution and variation [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The Eastern Imperial Eagle (EIE) is a top predator exploiting different prey in different parts of its distribution. In this study, we summarise data collected over a long period of time (for 25 consecutive years), identifying key prey species in the ...
Dimitar Demerdzhiev +6 more
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Prey morphology and predator sociality drive predator prey preferences [PDF]
Journal of Mammalogy, 2016 Predator prey preferences shape the dynamics of predator–prey assemblages. Understanding the determinants of a predator’s prey preferences is therefore important. Trends in prey preferences of the large African predators have been described at a species scale, limiting our ability to assess the influence of prey morphology (size and horns) and predator
Hayley S. Clements +2 more
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Prey Switching with a Linear Preference Trade-Off [PDF]
SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2014 In ecology, prey switching refers to a predator's adaptive change of habitat or diet in response to prey abundance. In this paper, we study piecewise-smooth models of predator-prey interactions with a linear trade-off in a predator's prey preference. We consider optimally foraging predators and derive a model for a 1 predator-2 prey interaction with a ...
Piltz, S. H. +2 more
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Convergence between a mosquito-eating predator's natural diet and its prey-choice behaviour [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 On the basis of 1115 records of Evarcha culicivora feeding in the field, we can characterize this East African jumping spider (Salticidae) as being distinctively stenophagic. We can also, on the basis of laboratory prey-choice experiments, characterize E.
Robert R. Jackson +2 more
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The Invasive Round Goby Neogobius melanostomus as a Potential Threat to Native Crayfish Populations
Animals, 2021 Despite the spread of round goby Neogobius melanostomus into freshwater streams, there is a lack of information with respect to its effect on macroinvertebrate communities, especially crustaceans. We studied foraging efficiency of N.
Pavel Franta +5 more
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Lions Panthera leo Prefer Killing Certain Cattle Bos taurus Types
Animals, 2020 Lion predation on cattle causes severe human–wildlife conflict that results in retaliatory persecution throughout the lion’s geographic range. Cattle closely resemble the body size, shape, and herding patterns of preferred lion prey species.
Florian J. Weise +4 more
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