Wolf Pack Buffer Zones As Prey Reservoirs
Mech LD. 1977. Wolf Pack Buffer Zones As Prey Reservoirs. Science. 198(4314):320-321
In a declining herd, surviving deer inhabited overlapping edges of wolfpack territories. There, wolves hunted little until desperate, in order to avoid fatal encounters with neighbors. Such encounters reduce wolf numbers and predation pressure and apparently allow surviving deer along territory edges to repopulate the area through dispersal of their prime, less vulnerable offspring into territory cores.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Mech, L
- Units
- VOYA
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Gray Wolf(Canis lupus), Territory