Apparent coordination and collaboration in cooperatively hunting crocodilians

2014/10/06 by Vladimir Dinets · 2 citations
Psychology · Environmental Science · #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Marine animal studies overview #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

paper · doi:10.1080/03949370.2014.915432

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Abstract

Coordinated hunting, in which individual predators relate in time and space to each other’s actions, is a complex form of cooperative hunting (Bailey et al. 2012), considered to be very rare in ver...

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