In human-modified habitats, anthropogenic landscape features may increase or decrease hunting efficiency of predators.
Second, feeding on prey concentrations created through anthropogenic niches increases their hunting efficiency, by reducing both search and commute times.
Our results also suggest that keeping some natural habitat elements such as swamps, ponds or fallen trees may positively correlate with wolf hunting efficiency and possibly add to the ungulate control in commercial forests.
These include fertility, mortality rates, hunting efficiency and the number of skilled and unskilled hunters in each group, as well as levels of skill in making objects such as weapons, and the ability to specialise and trade.Initially, the researchers assumed that on average Neanderthals and modern humans had the same abilities for most of these attributes.
In all, working with moray eels improved grouper hunting efficiency five-fold, the team reports in the current issue of PLoS Biology.
can increase the abundance, diversity, or hunting efficiency of predators using the area (Larivière et al. 1999; Coates and Delehanty 2010).
Along with horses came aspects of the emerging plains culture, such as equestrian and horse training skills, greatly increased mobility, hunting efficiency, trade over long distances, intensified warfare, the linking of wealth and prestige to horses and war, and the rise of large and powerful tribal confederacies.
In addition, hunting efficiency (HE) did not differ between age classes (Table 1).
This morphology might also increase hunting efficiency by allowing bears to thrust their heads into breathing holes or pupping dens.
First, shoaling may reduce the hunting efficiency of visual orienting predators that are confused in the presence of multiple targets [25], [26].
Moreover, the acceleration records in this study provided the dash duration and allowed us to derive an efficiency index to indicate the effort spent in pursuing prey, here labelled as hunting efficiency (HE = sum of dash duration/dive cycle duration).
