By
Fritz R. Walther, Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA (retired)
Elizabeth C. Mungall, Texas Woman's University; Exotic Wildlife Association, USA
Gerald A. Grau, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Description
Gazelles and their relatives are important game animals in Africa and Asia; they have been successfully introduced into the US and they
are also kept in zoos throughout the world. The occurrence of territorial behavior and its importance for the reproduction of gazelles
has been recognized for some time; thus specific information on their territorial behavior is desirable both for scientific and for practical
reasons.
This book provides the first concrete information on territory size and shape, duration of territorial periods, reoccupation
of territories, phases of territoriality, the process of becoming territorial and of abandoning the territory, favorable and unfavorable
environmental factors for territorial establishment, and territoriality as antagonist of migratory behavior. Also included are many previously
unknown details of traditional territorial behavior, such as differences in the aggression of owners of territories toward (male) conspecifics
of different age and social class, the structure of a marking system within a territory, etc.
Included in series
Noyes Series in Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Audience:
Animal scientists, veterinarians, agricultural and zoological managers and handlers, animal behaviorists.
