Lions eat chimpanzees: The first evidence of predation by lions on wild chimpanzees
Lions eat chimpanzees: The first evidence of predation by lions on wild chimpanzees
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狮子吃黑猩猩：狮子捕食野生黑猩猩的第一个证据
DOI：
10.1002/ajp.1350290102
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发表时间：
1993
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
T. Tsukahara
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作者：
T. Tsukahara
没有报告证实狮子捕食野生黑猩猩。最近，至少有两头狮子造访了坦桑尼亚的马哈尔山国家公园。1989年6月至9月期间，在四个狮子粪便样本中发现了黑猩猩的遗骸，包括毛发、骨头和牙齿。每个粪便样本的发现，在时间上相隔很远，结合日常出勤记录和粪便内容物的分析，表明至少有四只黑猩猩，包括两只成年雌性，一只老年青春期雄性和一只早期青春期雄性，被吃掉了。观察到的黑猩猩对狮子的反应包括报警，呜咽，爬上树和沉默。狮子的捕食行为作为形成黑猩猩社会结构的一个因素一直被忽视。然而，在与狮子同域的热带草原生活的黑猩猩中经常观察到的大型聚会规模可能是这个物种的反捕食者反应。© 1993 Wiley‐利斯公司
No report has confirmed predation on wild chimpanzees by lions. Recently, at least two lions visited the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania. Chimpanzee remains, including hairs, bones, and a tooth, were found in four samples of lion feces between June and September 1989. The discovery of each fecal sample, widely separated in time, combined with analyses of daily attendance records and fecal contents, suggests that at least four chimpanzees, including two adult females, an old adolescent male, and an early adolescent male, were eaten. Observed responses of chimpanzees to lions included alarm calls, whimpers, climbing into trees, and silence. Predation by lions has been neglected as a factor shaping the social structure of chimpanzees. Nevertheless, the large party size that has often been observed in savanna‐living chimpanzees, which are sympatric with lions, might be an anti‐predator response of this species. © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.