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  1. Competing seed consumers drive the evolution of scatter-hoarding: Why rodents do not put all their seeds in one larder

    Competing seed consumers drive the evolution of scatter-hoarding: Why rodents do not put all their seeds in one larder

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Ursina D. Rusch --- Department of Botany and Zoology, South Africa Jeremy J. Midgley --- Department of Botany, South Africa Bruce Anderson --- Department of Botany and Zoology, South Africa
    Competition for food resources amongst animal seed dispersers and pilferers has driven dispersers to increasingly innovative seed-caching methods.We determined cache sizes in the field as well as seed cache recovery ability of a scatter-hoarding mouse, Acomys subspinosus, and compared these...
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