Why Did the Meerkat Cross the Road? Flexible Adaptation of Phylogenetically-Old Behavioural Strategies to Modern-Day Threats

Nicolas Perony; Simon W. Townsend

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052834

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Why Did the Meerkat Cross the Road? Flexible Adaptation of Phylogenetically-Old Behavioural Strategies to Modern-Day Threats

Nicolas Perony,

Affiliation Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Simon W. Townsend

* E-mail: simon.townsend@ieu.uzh.ch

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Kalahari Meerkat Project, Kuruman River Reserve, Northern Cape, South Africa
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Why Did the Meerkat Cross the Road? Flexible Adaptation of Phylogenetically-Old Behavioural Strategies to Modern-Day Threats

Nicolas Perony,
Simon W. Townsend

Published: February 18, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052834

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