Ecology and Behaviour of the African Buffalo : Social inequality and decision making /

What are the benefits that animals gain from living in a social group? This question has been the primary focus of the author's ecological interest. After many years of original and innovative research on the African buffalo, particularly at Lake Manyara in northern Tanzania, Herbert Prins has...

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Main Author: Prins, H. H. T.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1996.
Series:Chapman & Hall wildlife ecology and behaviour series.
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