Infanticide in Wild Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
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- 26 May 1992
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 73 (2) , 317-320
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1382063
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
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