The African wild dog : behavior, ecology, and conservation / Scott Creel and Nancy Marusha Creel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creel, Scott, 1962-

Contributor:

Creel, Nancy Marusha.

Series:

Monographs in behavior and ecology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African wild dog.

Physical Description:

xii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]

Summary:

"There is no book like this on wild dogs. It is a valuable, engaging, and well-written contribution to science."--Joshua Ginsberg, Director, Asia Program, Wildlife Conservation Society

"This long-needed monograph on wild dogs fills a major gap in the literature. Containing a mass of new information and arguments that will advance many fields, it is a worthy addition to a distinguished set of books on large African carnivores."--James R. Malcolm, University of Redlands

Contents:

History and Natural History

The Selous, the Study Population, and General Methods

Home Ranges and Habitat Selection

Cooperative Hunting and the Evolution of Sociality

Prey Selection

Ungulate Herd Sizes and the Risk of Predation by Wild Dogs

Demography-Survival and Reproduction

Dispersal

Reproductive Suppression, Social Stress, and the Behavioral and Endocrine Correlates of Rank

Patterns of Relatedness and the Fitness Consequences of Dispersal, Philopatry, and Reproductive Suppression

Interspecific Competition with Larger Carnivores

Infectious Diseases

Extinction Risk and Conservation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-338) and index.

ISBN:

0691016550

0691016542

OCLC:

47995950

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