Selfish partners: resource partitioning in male coalitions of Asiatic lions.

ABSTRACT: Behavioral plasticity within species is adaptive which directs survival traits to take multiple pathways under varying conditions. Male-male cooperation is an evolutionary strategy often exhibiting an array of alternatives between and within species. African male lions coalesce to safeguard territories and mate acquisition. Unique to these coalitions is lack of strict hierarchies between partners, who have similar resource securities possibly because of many mating opportunities within large female groups. Skewed mating and feeding rights have only been documented in large coalitions where males were related. However, smaller modal prey coupled with less simultaneous mating opportunities for male Asiatic lions in Gir forests, India would likely result in a different coalition structure. Ob

SUBMITTER: Chakrabarti S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5873260 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature