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Sex differences in feeding activity results in sexual segregation of feral goats
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Sexual segregation is common in ungulates. We show, in a high latitude population of feral goats where behavioural synchrony and fission rates have been shown to be the best explanation for segregation, that it is differences explicitly in the feeding time requirements of the two sexes (but not those for other activities) that best explains the variations in monthly frequencies of segregation. However, this effect is less marked during winter months when short day length forces the time budge...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ "Henry Lester Memorial Trust", "World Friendship Trust"
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Shi, J
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Ethology Journal website
- Volume:
- 114
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 444-451
- Publication date:
- 2008-05-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1439-0310
- ISSN:
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0179-1613
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:3310
- Deposit date:
- 2010-02-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Robin I M Dunbar & Jianbin Shi
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- Citation: Dunbar, R. I. M. & Shi, J. (2008). 'Sex differences in feeding activity results in sexual segregation of feral goats', Ethology, 114(5), 444-451. Copyright © 2008 The Authors. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. N.B. Professor Dunbar is now based at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford.
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