Among species, coexistence is driven partly by the partitioning of available resources. The
mechanisms of coexistence and competition among species have been a central topic …

Animals should adapt their foraging habits, changing their dietary breadth in response to
variation in the richness and availability of food resources. Understanding how species …

Within carnivore guilds, dominant competitors (eg, lions, Panthera leo) are limited primarily
by the density of prey, while subordinate competitors (eg, African wild dogs, Lycaon pictus) …

Diet plasticity is a common behavior exhibited by piscivores to sustain predator biomass
when preferred prey biomass is reduced. Invasive piscivore diet plasticity could complicate …

Africa is home to some of the world's most functionally diverse guilds of large carnivores.
However, they are increasingly under threat from anthropogenic pressures that may …

Wire-snare poaching for bushmeat is increasingly recognized as a serious threat to the
species comprising the large African carnivore guild (African lion, African wild dog, spotted …

Interspecific competition has strong effects within carnivore guilds, and African wild dogs are
strongly limited by intraguild predation by lions and food loss to spotted hyenas. The …

The anthropogenic impact on wildlife is ever increasing. With shrinking habitats, wild
populations are being pushed to co-exist in proximity to humans leading to an increased …

Striped hyenas (Hyaena hyaena) are extremely rare in Nepal, and only a few people have
studied them in their natural forest and grassland habitat. Their rarity is due to anthropogenic …

Interspecific competition is an important evolutionary force, influencing interactions between
species and shaping the composition of biological communities. In mammalian carnivores …