The behavioural ecology of the mara, Dolichotis patagonus

This thesis presents the results of a 3 year field study on the behavioural ecology of the mara on the Valdés Peninsula in Argentina. The main goal was to investigate why the mara's social system incorporates both monogamy and communal denning, a combination unknown in other mammals. The resear...

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Main Author: Taber, Andrew B.
Other Authors: Macdonald, David Whyte
Published: University of Oxford 1987
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380012