Wolf-pack buffer zones as prey reservoirs
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Abstract
In a declining herd, surviving deer inhabited overlapping edges of wolf-pack 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.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Wolf-pack buffer zones as prey reservoirs |
| Series title | Science |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.198.4314.320 |
| Volume | 198 |
| Issue | 4313 |
| Year Published | 1977 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
| Description | 2 p. |
| First page | 320 |
| Last page | 321 |