Study of Vigilance Behaviour of Chital

Name: Study of Vigilance Behaviour of Chital
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ISBN: 9783838358031

ISBN-10: 3838358031

ISBN-13: 9783838358031

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Authors: Sartaj Ghuman, K. Sankar, Y. V. Jhala

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Predation is an important agent of natural selection in animal communities and so vigilance behaviour has very high selection pressure acting upon it. During feeding bouts, though, herbivores tend to experience a trade-off between vigilance and foraging. Thus, vigilance as a behaviour pattern, ought to be tightly regulated by the cost-benefit ratios. A study on vigilance behaviour of chital (Axis axis) was conducted at Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India, from December 2008 to April 2009. The objectives were to examine the determinants of individual and group vigilance in chital; and also to examine the effect of conspecific behaviour on individual vigilance. What emerges is an…

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List price: $61.00
Publisher: Lambert Academic Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.19" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English