Kalahari cheetahs : adaptations to an arid region /

This is a detailed study of the cheetah in an arid environment, addressing topics such as optimal foraging theory, hunting strategies and predator prey relations, mating systems, reproductive strategies and success, inter-specific competition, demography, social organisation, and population limitati...

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Main Authors: Mills, M. G. L. (Author), Mills, Margie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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