Social Strategies of Carnivorous Mammalian Predators Hunting and Surviving as Families

Title:

Author:

Srinivasan, Mridula. editor.

ISBN:

9783031298035

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Physical Description:

VIII, 350 p. 1 illus. online resource.

Series:

Fascinating Life Sciences,

Contents:

Chapter 1. Animals That Stay Together, Hunt Together -- Chapter 2. Social Strategies of the African Lion -- Chapter 3. The Role of Food and Mates in Shaping Asiatic Lion Societies -- Chapter 4. Wolves in a Human World: Social Dynamics of the Northern Hemisphere's Most Iconic Social Carnivore -- Chapter 5. Hunting Success in the Spotted Hyena: Morphological Adaptations and Behavioral Strategies -- Chapter 6. Hunting Behavior and Social Ecology of African Wild Dogs -- Chapter 7. Social Strategies of a Consummate Marine Predator-Mammal Hunting Killer Whales -- Chapter 8. Mammal Hunting Killer Whales off Monterey, California-A 30-Year Synthesis -- Chapter 9. Sociality and Its Relevance in Group Hunting Mammalian Predators.

Subject Term:

Freshwater and Marine Ecology.

Community and Population Ecology.