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Reptiles as principal prey? Adaptations for durophagy and prey selection by jaguar (Panthera onca)

  • 1. Laboratório de Herpetologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil; & Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brasil;
  • 2. Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Populações, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; & Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
  • 3. Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Populações, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil;

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Miranda, Everton B.P., de Menezes, Jorge F.S., Rheingantz, Marcelo L. (2016): Reptiles as principal prey? Adaptations for durophagy and prey selection by jaguar (Panthera onca). Journal of Natural History 50: 2021-2035, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1180717, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1180717

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