INFANTICIDE IN WILD RABBITS (ORYCTOLAGUS-CUNICULUS)
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Output type: Journal article
Author list: KUNKELE J
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication year: 1992
Volume number: 73
Issue number: 2
Start page: 317
End page: 320
Number of pages: 4
ISSN: 0022-2372
eISSN: 1545-1542
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
Infant killing in 13 litters of European wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), born within an enclosed (2.2 ha) population, was recorded. Because interspecific predation can be excluded, female-female competition for a limited number of breeding burrows may have resulted in infanticide.
Keywords
INFANTICIDE, INTRASEXUAL COMPETITION, ORYCTOLAGUS
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