TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental manipulation to avoid a unique predator: Drinking hole excavation in the agile wallaby, Macropus agilis
AU - Doody, Jeremiah Sean
AU - Sims, Rachel
AU - Letnic, Mike
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The simplest way of avoiding an ambush predator is to entirely avoid the habitat in which it hunts. However, this strategy requires that the prey species find alternative, risk-free sources of essential resources. Herein we describe a novel strategy used by agile wallabies (Macropus agilis) to avoid saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) predation: the creation of risk-free sites to obtain water.
AB - The simplest way of avoiding an ambush predator is to entirely avoid the habitat in which it hunts. However, this strategy requires that the prey species find alternative, risk-free sources of essential resources. Herein we describe a novel strategy used by agile wallabies (Macropus agilis) to avoid saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) predation: the creation of risk-free sites to obtain water.
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01298.x/pdf
U2 - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01298.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01298.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0179-1613
VL - 113
SP - 128
EP - 136
JO - Ethology
JF - Ethology
IS - 2
ER -