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The Role of Scent Marking in Mate Selection by Female Pumas (Puma concolor)

Mate selection influences individual fitness, is often based on complex cues and behaviours, and can be difficult to study in solitary species including carnivores. We used motion-triggered cameras at 29 community scrapes (i.e. scent marking locations used by multiple individuals) and home range dat...

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Autores principales: Allen, Maximilian L., Wittmer, Heiko U., Houghtaling, Paul, Smith, Justine, Elbroch, L. Mark, Wilmers, Christopher C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26489008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139087