Communication relies on signals that can be produced via different sensory modalities to modify receivers’behavior.During social interactions,the possibility to perceive subtle visual cues enhances the use of facial ...
The Egyptia n mon goose (Herpestes ichneumon Linn aeus, 1758) is a medium-sized car nivore that experienced remarkable geographic expansion over the last 3 decades in the Iberian Peninsula. In this study, we investiga...
Individual differe nces in cog nition have been shown to be common in some animal taxa, and recent evidenee suggests that an individual's personality can be associated with an individuads cognitive strategy. We tested...
In total, 177 of 245 terrestrial carnivores are described as solitary, and much of carnivore ecology is built on the assumptions that interactions between adult solitary carnivores are rare. We employed Global Positio...
Anthropogenic manipulation of finite resources on the landscape to benefit individual species or communities is commonly employed by conservation and management agencies. One such action in arid regions is the constru...
support fromthe U.S. National Park Service,the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Siléns Foundation;Hunters in the Kotzebue area kindly provided us with harvest materialon wolverines,caribou and moose;Dan Stevenson and the local staff at the U.S.National Park Service office in Kotzebue for logistical support;to Gene Peltola for help during aninitial stage of the Noatak wolverine project
Knowledge of carnivore diets is essential to understand how carnivore populations respond demographically to variations in prey abundance. Analysis of stable isotopes is a useful complement to traditional methods of a...