Factors Influencing Travel Order as Proxy for Leadership and Trade-offs in Activity Budgets in Lactating and Nonlactating African Savanna Elephants
Nutritional and energetic needs of female mammals depend upon size or reproductive investment and shape individual activity budgets and behavioral patterns. To maximize nutritional and energetic intake females may increase time allocated to foraging or access resources through risk-prone behaviors,...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1121 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2124&context=theses |