Gazelles and Their Relatives: A Study in Territorial Behavior (Noyes Series in Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Management) - Hardcover

Walther, Fritz R.; Mungall, Elizabeth C.; Grau, Gerald A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815509286 ISBN 13: 9780815509288

Publisher: William Andrew, 1984

Synopsis

Gazelles and their relatives are important game animals in Africa and Asia; they have been successfully introduced into the US and they are also kept in zoos throughout the world. The occurrence of territorial behavior and its importance for the reproduction of gazelles has been recognized for some time; thus specific information on their territorial behavior is desirable both for scientific and for practical reasons.

This book provides the first concrete information on territory size and shape, duration of territorial periods, reoccupation of territories, phases of territoriality, the process of becoming territorial and of abandoning the territory, favorable and unfavorable environmental factors for territorial establishment, and territoriality as antagonist of migratory behavior. Also included are many previously unknown details of traditional territorial behavior, such as differences in the aggression of owners of territories toward (male) conspecifics of different age and social class, the structure of a marking system within a territory, etc.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Andrew
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0815509286
• ISBN 13: 9780815509288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252