ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2014
Mammalian energetics. Flexible energetics of cheetah hunting strategies provide resistance against kleptoparasitism.
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- Advances in biologging can identify nuanced energetic costs and gains in predators.Movement ecology · 2024Review
- Human procurement of meat from lion (Panthera leo) kills: Costs of disturbance and implications for carnivore conservation.PloS one · 2024Article
- Incorporating otolith-isotope inferred field metabolic rate into conservation strategies.Conservation physiology · 2024Article
- Categorising cheetah behaviour using tri-axial accelerometer data loggers: a comparison of model resolution and data logger performance.Movement ecology · 2022Article
- Animal lifestyle affects acceptable mass limits for attached tags.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Using Machine Learning for Remote Behaviour Classification-Verifying Acceleration Data to Infer Feeding Events in Free-Ranging Cheetahs.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Dehydration risk is associated with reduced nest attendance and hatching success in a cooperatively breeding bird, the southern pied babblerConservation physiology · 2021Article
- Estimating the energy expenditure of free-ranging polar bears using tri-axial accelerometers: A validation with doubly labeled water.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Coping with climate change: limited behavioral responses to hot weather in a tropical carnivore.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Terrestrial locomotion energy costs vary considerably between species: no evidence that this is explained by rate of leg force production or ecology.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Timing of head movements is consistent with energy minimization in walking ungulates.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- Phylogenetic comparisons of pedestrian locomotion costs: confirmations and new insights.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Energy cost and return for hunting in African wild dogs and cheetahs.Nature communications · 2016Article
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Abstract
Population viability is driven by individual survival, which in turn depends on individuals balancing energy budgets. As carnivores may function close to maximum sustained power outputs, decreased food availability or increased activity may render some populations energetically vulnerable. Prey theft may compromise energetic budgets of mesopredators, such as cheetahs and wild dogs, which are susceptible to competition from larger carnivores. We show that daily energy expenditure (DEE) of cheetahs was similar to size-based predictions and positively related to distance traveled. Theft at 25% only requires cheetahs to hunt for an extra 1.1 hour per day, increasing DEE by just 12%. Therefore, not all mesopredators are energetically constrained by direct competition. Other factors that increase DEE, such as those that increase travel, may be more important for population viability.
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