This the first 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 limitation.
This the first 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 limitation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Morphometrics, demographics and genetic viability
- 3: Diet
- 4: Prey selection and the impact of cheetah predation on prey populations
- 5: Twenty-four hour activity patterns and distances moved
- 6: Hunting behaviour
- 7: Foraging success
- 8: Energetics
- 9: Coexistence and the cheetah's relations with other carnivores.
- 10: Socio-spatial organisation and spatial ecology
- 11: Breeding, cub survival and female reproductive success
- 12: The Mating System
- 13: Conservation issues around cheetahs
- 14: Epilogue
- Appendices
