The African Wild Dog (eBook)

Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation

Scott Creel, Nancy Marusha Creel (Autoren)

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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20700-1 (ISBN)

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With only 5,000 surviving, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is one of the world's most endangered large carnivores--and one of the most remarkable. This comprehensive portrait of wild dogs incorporates previously scattered information with important new findings from a six-year study in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, Africa's largest protected area. The book emphasizes ecology, concentrating on why wild dogs fare poorly in protected areas that maintain healthy populations of lions, hyenas, or other top carnivores. In addition to conservation issues, it covers fascinating aspects of wild dog behavior and social evolution. The Creels use demographic, behavioral, endocrine, and genetic approaches to examine how and why nonbreeding pack mates help breeding pairs raise their litters. They also present the largest data set ever collected on mammalian predator-prey interactions and the evolution of cooperative hunting, allowing them to account for wild dogs' prowess as hunters. By using a large sample size and sophisticated analytical tools, the authors step well beyond previous research. Their results include some surprises that will cause even specialists to rethink certain propositions, such as the idea that wild dogs are unusually vulnerable to infectious disease. Several findings apply broadly to the management of other protected areas. Of clear appeal to ecologists studying predation and cooperation in any population, this book collects and expands a cache of information useful to anyone studying conservation as well as to amateurs intrigued by the once-maligned but extraordinary wild dog.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Zusatzinfo: 33 halftones. 125 line illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: African buffalo • African Horse Sickness • African wild dog • Alpha (ethology) • Alpine marmot • Ancylostoma caninum • apex predator • Australian magpie • Banded mongoose • Bat-eared fox • Blue wildebeest • Botswana • Brookfield Zoo • bushbuck • Bush dog • canidae • Canine distemper • Canine Parvovirus • Canine tooth • Carnivora • carnivore • Cheetah • Chimpanzee • Chobe National Park • Coati • Competition • Cooperative hunting • Dall sheep • Dayak fruit bat • defecation • Dewclaw • Dog bite • Dog Breed • duiker • ecosystem • estrous cycle • Ethiopian wolf • Etosha National Park • European badger • female • Florida scrub jay • foraging • Frankfurt Zoological Society • Game Reserve • Game Warden • Gemsbok • genetic drift • Golden jackal • golden lion tamarin • gray wolf • Grizzly Bear • habitat destruction • Hartebeest • herding • Hippobosca longipennis • home range • Hugo van Lawick • hyena • Inbreeding • Infanticide (zoology) • intraspecific competition • Kennel cough • killer whale • Kit fox • Kruger National Park • Lion • Local extinction • Mange • mating • mongoose • monitor lizard • naked mole-rat • Paternal care • Population decline • predation • Q fever • Red Fox • Reproductive suppression • Rhesus Macaque • rodent • Seasonal breeder • Serengeti National Park • Sexual Dimorphism • Southern Africa • spotted hyena • springbok • Squirrel monkey • Sub-Saharan Africa • Territory (animal) • thicket • Toxoplasma gondii • trophy hunting • Tsetse fly • udder • Ungulate • Viverridae • Wildebeest • wildlife • Yearling (horse) • Yellow baboon
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20700-3 / 0691207003
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20700-1 / 9780691207001