Wild Ungulate Prey Size and Feeding Group Demographic Structure Affect Interactions and Per Capita Food Intake of African Pride Lions in East African Maasai Steppe

Wild Ungulate Prey Size and Feeding Group Demographic Structure Affect Interactions and Per Capita Food Intake of African Pride Lions in East African Maasai Steppe

ABSTRACT The African lion (Panthera leo Linnaeus, 1758) has evolved complex associations in which individual survival is an interplay of cooperation among pride members. Although feeding behaviors of African lions are widely known, our understanding of how age and sex classes affect per capita intak...

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Main Authors: Thobias Oddo Tomeka, Bernard M. Kissui, Ifura Godfrey Ukio, Frank R. Mushi, Rudolf F. Mremi, Nathan J. Roberts, Marcel Holyoak, Guangshun Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2025-08-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
African lion
carcass biomass
demographic structure
feeding group
per capita food intake
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71787
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