Kalahari cheetahs : adaptations to an arid region / by M.G.L. Mills, Lewis Foundation, South Africa ; Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and M.E.J. Mills, Lewis Foundation, South Africa ; in collaboration with C.T.T. Edwards - statistics, NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand, D. Gottelli - genetics, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, D.M. Scantlebury - energetics, Queen's University Belfast.

This is a detailed study of the cheetah in an arid environment, addressing topics such as optimal foraging theory, hunting strategies and predator prey relations, mating systems, reproductive strategies and success, inter-specific competition, demography, social organisation, and population limitati...

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