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Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs
African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are described as highly collaborative endurance pursuit hunters based on observations derived primarily from the grass plains of East Africa. However, the remaining population of this endangered species mainly occupies mixed woodland savannah where hunting strategie...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4820541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27023355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11033 |
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author | Hubel, Tatjana Y. Myatt, Julia P. Jordan, Neil R. Dewhirst, Oliver P. McNutt, J. Weldon Wilson, Alan M. |
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description | African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are described as highly collaborative endurance pursuit hunters based on observations derived primarily from the grass plains of East Africa. However, the remaining population of this endangered species mainly occupies mixed woodland savannah where hunting strategies appear to differ from those previously described. We used high-resolution GPS and inertial technology to record fine-scale movement of all members of a single pack of six adult African wild dogs in northern Botswana. The dogs used multiple short-distance hunting attempts with a low individual kill rate (15.5%), but high group feeding rate due to the sharing of prey. Use of high-level cooperative chase strategies (coordination and collaboration) was not recorded. In the mixed woodland habitats typical of their current range, simultaneous, opportunistic, short-distance chasing by dogs pursuing multiple prey (rather than long collaborative pursuits of single prey by multiple individuals) could be the key to their relative success in these habitats. |
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spelling | pubmed-48205412016-04-17 Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs Hubel, Tatjana Y. Myatt, Julia P. Jordan, Neil R. Dewhirst, Oliver P. McNutt, J. Weldon Wilson, Alan M. Nat Commun Article African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are described as highly collaborative endurance pursuit hunters based on observations derived primarily from the grass plains of East Africa. However, the remaining population of this endangered species mainly occupies mixed woodland savannah where hunting strategies appear to differ from those previously described. We used high-resolution GPS and inertial technology to record fine-scale movement of all members of a single pack of six adult African wild dogs in northern Botswana. The dogs used multiple short-distance hunting attempts with a low individual kill rate (15.5%), but high group feeding rate due to the sharing of prey. Use of high-level cooperative chase strategies (coordination and collaboration) was not recorded. In the mixed woodland habitats typical of their current range, simultaneous, opportunistic, short-distance chasing by dogs pursuing multiple prey (rather than long collaborative pursuits of single prey by multiple individuals) could be the key to their relative success in these habitats. Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4820541/ /pubmed/27023355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11033 Text en Copyright © 2016, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Hubel, Tatjana Y. Myatt, Julia P. Jordan, Neil R. Dewhirst, Oliver P. McNutt, J. Weldon Wilson, Alan M. Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs |
title | Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs |
title_full | Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs |
title_fullStr | Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs |
title_full_unstemmed | Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs |
title_short | Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs |
title_sort | additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in african wild dogs |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4820541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27023355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11033 |
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