Wildebeests of the Serengeti
In addition, the wildebeest has high shoulders and a back that slopes down to lower hindquarters, a configuration that locomotion specialists believe is energetically efficient for traveling long distances at an easy canter.The spotted hyena, the ranking predator of wildebeests, has a similar confor...
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| Published in: | Natural history Vol. 115; no. 7; p. 8 |
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| Format: | Magazine Article |
| Language: | English |
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01-09-2006
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| Summary: | In addition, the wildebeest has high shoulders and a back that slopes down to lower hindquarters, a configuration that locomotion specialists believe is energetically efficient for traveling long distances at an easy canter.The spotted hyena, the ranking predator of wildebeests, has a similar conformation. In the absence of the occasional severe drought, most of the culling occurs late in the dry season, when the calves, whose nutritional needs for growth put them at particular risk, are most likely to lose condition and eventually succumb to parasites and disease. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Feature-1 |
| ISSN: | 0028-0712 |