US Geological Survey

 

Date of this Version

10-21-1977

Citation

Science, New Series, Vol. 198, No. 4314 (Oct. 21, 1977), pp. 320-321.

Comments

U.S. government work.

Abstract

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.

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