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An intriguing aspect of social foraging behaviour is that large groups are often no better at capturing prey than are small groups, a pattern that has been attributed to diminished cooperation (i.e., free riding) in large groups. Although this suggests the formation of large groups is unrelated to p...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.nf043 2024-02-04T09:59:28+01:00 Data from: Influence of group size on the success of wolves hunting bison ... MacNulty, Daniel R. Tallian, Aimee Stahler, Daniel R. Smith, Douglas W. 2015 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nf043 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.nf043 en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112884 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Bison bison wolf social foraging Cervus elaphus carnivore Group hunting Bison Holocene Canis lupus Dataset dataset 2015 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nf04310.1371/journal.pone.0112884 2024-01-05T04:51:50Z An intriguing aspect of social foraging behaviour is that large groups are often no better at capturing prey than are small groups, a pattern that has been attributed to diminished cooperation (i.e., free riding) in large groups. Although this suggests the formation of large groups is unrelated to prey capture, little is known about cooperation in large groups that hunt hard-to-catch prey. Here, we used direct observations of Yellowstone wolves (Canis lupus) hunting their most formidable prey, bison (Bison bison), to test the hypothesis that large groups are more cooperative when hunting difficult prey. We quantified the relationship between capture success and wolf group size, and compared it to previously reported results for Yellowstone wolves hunting elk (Cervus elaphus), a prey that was, on average, 3 times easier to capture than bison. Whereas improvement in elk capture success levelled off at 2–6 wolves, bison capture success levelled off at 9–13 wolves with evidence that it continued to increase ... : Data_MacNultyetalPLOSONECounts of the number of times wolves in different-sized hunting groups attempted and succeeded to attack and capture bison in Yellowstone National Park, 1996-2013. These are the frequency data presented in Figure 2 of the article. ... Dataset Canis lupus Bison bison bison DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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An intriguing aspect of social foraging behaviour is that large groups are often no better at capturing prey than are small groups, a pattern that has been attributed to diminished cooperation (i.e., free riding) in large groups. Although this suggests the formation of large groups is unrelated to prey capture, little is known about cooperation in large groups that hunt hard-to-catch prey. Here, we used direct observations of Yellowstone wolves (Canis lupus) hunting their most formidable prey, bison (Bison bison), to test the hypothesis that large groups are more cooperative when hunting difficult prey. We quantified the relationship between capture success and wolf group size, and compared it to previously reported results for Yellowstone wolves hunting elk (Cervus elaphus), a prey that was, on average, 3 times easier to capture than bison. Whereas improvement in elk capture success levelled off at 2–6 wolves, bison capture success levelled off at 9–13 wolves with evidence that it continued to increase ... : Data_MacNultyetalPLOSONECounts of the number of times wolves in different-sized hunting groups attempted and succeeded to attack and capture bison in Yellowstone National Park, 1996-2013. These are the frequency data presented in Figure 2 of the article. ... |
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