ANTH 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Long Tail, Bushmeat, Habitat Destruction
2 Mar 2018
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**definitions on slide (for individual within a species) Giant fruit crops, if you go under the tree you will find thousands of rotting fruit. There is an overabundance so even if two species/individuals fight over a fig tree, the loser can leave and come back at a later time and there will still be plenty of fruit available. Position in tree (higher = more sun = debatably better) Th second animal has less available to feed on. Animals will avoid fights as much as possible because they want to minimize potential injury. More fights if individuals are close in rank (high rank vs. low rank is rare) Others have shown that the dominant individuals may be more successful in situations where they have access to better/more resources (situations of stress/lack of resources) You are either defending the territory partially or totally. Graph: x is optimal territory size (maximize benefit relative to costs) Prof"s guess is that these do not occur.
