Grey wolves Canis lupus have been studied extensively, but there has been no detailed
review of the species' feeding ecology, despite growing debate about how to conserve wolf …

Dispersal is a key demographic process involving three stages: emigration, transience and
settlement; each of which is influenced by individual, social and environmental …

During the last century humans have dramatically accelerated alterations and loss of
biodiversity worldwide. Changes to our planet's ecosystems by Humans go back tens of …

We have produced computational simulations of multi-agent systems in which wolf agents
chase prey agents. We show that two simple decentralized rules controlling the movement of …

Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) and wolves (Canis lupus) are two apex predators with strong and
cascading effects on ecosystem structure and function. After decades of recovery from near …

This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research
literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological …

Our goal in this essay is to review the hypothesis that females choose mates by the
evaluation of male motor performance. We define motor performance as vigour, the ability to …

Cooperative hunting is believed to have important implications for the evolution of sociality
and advanced cognitive abilities. Variation in the level of hunt organisation amongst species …

The functional response of a predator describes the change in per capita kill rate to changes
in prey density. This response can be influenced by predator densities, giving a predator …

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty
leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental …