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Carte American Pronghorn John Byers

American Pronghorn

Social Adaptations and the Ghosts of Predators Past

Autor: John Byers
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern în cantități mici
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Pronghorn antelope are the fastest runners in North America, often reaching speeds of up to 100 kilo...

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Autor
John Byers
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
1998
Pagini
288
EAN
9780226086989
Enbook ID
04543149
Editura
University of Chicago Press
Greutate
650
Dimensiuni
153 x 178 x 23

Descriere completă

Pronghorn antelope are the fastest runners in North America, often reaching speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour. Yet none of their current predators can run this fast. Pronghorn also gather in groups, a behaviour commonly viewed as a "safety in numbers" defence. But again, none of their living predators are fearsome enough to merit such a response. In this book, John A. Byers argues that these mystifying behaviours evolved in response to the dangerous predators with which pronghorn shared their grassland home for nearly four million years: among them fleet hyenas, lions, and cheetahs. Although these predators died out 10,000 years ago, pronghorn still behave as if they were present - as if they were living with the ghosts of predators past. This provocative hypothesis should stimulate behavioural ecologists and mammalogists to consider whether other species' adaptations are also haunted by selective pressures from predators past. The book should also find an audience among evolutionary biologists and paleontologists.

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