Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-338) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 History and Natural History -- 1.1 Taxonomy and Phylogeny -- 1.2 Social Organization -- 1.3 Ecology -- 1.4 Conservation Issues -- 1.5 issues Addressed by the Research and Organization of the Book -- 2 The Selous, the Study Population, and General Methods -- 2.1 The Selous Game Reserve -- 2.2 The Study Area and Population -- 2.3 General Methods -- 3 Home Ranges and Habitat Selection -- 3.1 Specific Methods -- 3.2 Description of Home Ranges -- 3.3 Exclusive Areas, Overlaps and Territorial Defense -- 3.4 Den Locations and Characteristics -- 3.5 Pack Size and Range Size -- 3.6 Habitat Selection -- 3.7 Effect of Prey Distribution on Habitat Selection and Home Range Properties -- 3.8 Comparison with Other Wild Dog Populations -- 3.9 Summary -- 4 Cooperative Hunting and the Evolution of Sociality -- 4.1 Specific Methods -- 4.2 Hunting and Foraging Success -- 4.3 Prey Selection and Hunting Success -- 4.4 Cooperative Hunting Behavior -- 4.5 Characteristics of Kill Sites -- 4.6 Quantitative Effects of Pack Size on Hunting Benefits and Costs -- 4.7 Optimal Hunting Pack Size -- 4.8 Net Rate of Food Intake vs. Efficiency -- 4.9 Effects of Group Size Unrelated to Hunting -- 4.10 Variance in Foraging Success -- 4.11 Other Wild Dog Populations -- 4.12 Communal Hunting and Group Size: Comparisons with Other Species -- 5 Prey Selection -- 5.1 Prey Availability and Encounter Rates -- 5.2 Encounters and Hunts -- 5.3 Hunts and Kills -- 5.4 Combined Effects of Encounter, Hunting, and Killing Probabilities on Prey Selection -- 5.5 Quantitative Models of Prey Selection -- 5.6 Summary -- 6 Ungulate Herd Sizes and the Risk of Predation by Wild Dogs -- 6.1 Probability of Being Encountered -- 6.2 The Probability of Being Hunted upon Encounter -- 6.3 Hunting Success -- 6.4 Kills per Encounter, Dilution of Risk, and Combined Measures of Vulnerability -- 7 Demography-Survival and Reproduction -- 7.1 Survival Rates -- 7.2 Reproduction -- 7.3 Density Dependence -- 7.4 Genetic Effective Population Size -- 7.5 Demographic Effective Population Size -- 8 Dispersal -- 8.1 Defining Dispersal in Social Carnivores -- 8.2 Number and Size of Dispersing Groups -- 8.3 Rates of Dispersal -- 8.4 Size of Dispersing Groups -- 8.5 Linear Dispersal Distance -- 8.6 The Duration and Circumstances of Floating -- 8.7 Comparison with Dispersal in Other Wild Dog Populations -- 8.8 Mortality Risk of Dispersal -- 8.9 Dispersal and Escape from Reproductive Suppression -- 8.10 Dispersal and Escape from Inbreeding -- 8.11 Integrating Forces that Drive Dispersal -- 9 Reproductive Suppression, Social Stress, and the Behavioral and Endocrine Correlates of Rank -- 9.1 Are Dominants More Aggressive? -- 9.2 Do Dominants Mate More Often or More Effectively? -- 9.3 Do Hormonal Differences Accompany Behavioral Differences? -- 9.4 Nonbreeder Lactation -- 9.5 Does Social Stress Mediate Reproductive Suppression of Subordinates? -- 9.6 How Effective Is Reproductive Suppression of Subordinates? -- 9.7 Similarities and Differences between the Sexes in the Correlates of Rank -- 9.8 Interspecific Comparisons -- 9.9 Dominance and Stress -- 9.10 Do the Correlates of Rank Relate to Dispersal and Social Organization? -- 10 Patterns of Relatedness and the Fitness Consequences of Dispersal, Philopatry, -- and Reproductive Suppression -- 10.1 Age-specific Relatedness of Natal and Immigrant Subordinates to Breeders -- 10.2 Inclusive Fitness of Nondispersers -- 10.3 Inclusive Fitness of Dispersers -- 10.4 Incomplete Reproductive Suppression: Breeding by Subordinates -- 11 Interspecific Competition with Larger Carnivores -- 11.1 Specific Methods -- 11.2 Carnivore Densities and Distributions in Selous -- 11.3 Correlations between Species Densities -- 11.4 Diet Overlap -- 11.5 Direct Competition at Kills -- 11.6 Interactions Away from Kills -- 11.7 Impact of Interspecific Competition -- 11.8 Adaptations to Interspecific Competition -- 12 Infectious Diseases -- 12.1 Canine Distemper Virus -- 12.2 Rabies Virus -- 12.3 Anthrax -- 12.4 Canine Parvovirus -- 12.5 Other Pathogens -- 12.6 Behavior and Epidemiology -- 12.7 Impact of Diseases on Population Dynamics and Density -- 13 Extinction Risk and Conservation -- 13.1 Analysis of Extinction Risk with Leslie Matrix Projections -- 13.2 Stochastic Individual-Based Modeling of Extinction Risk -- 13.3 Sensitivity Analysis and Results -- 13.4 Summary and Recommendations -- References -- Index.