The Kalahari Meerkat Project, or KMP, is a long term research project focused on studying the evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of cooperative behaviors in meerkats. The secondary aims of the project are to determine what factors affect the reproductive success of the meerkats and what behavioral and physiological カラハリ ミーアキャット プロジェクト ( KMP) は、ミーアキャットの協調行動の進化的原因と生態学的影響の研究に焦点を当てた長期研究プロジェクトです。 6. Dominant females can produce up to four litters a year, so long-lived females can produce a lot of offspring. The most successful female the Kalahari Meerkat Project studied reared 81 pups in her life. This is only possible because the rest of the group looks after them. 7. Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger. Despite rapidly ageing, dominant animals live longer because their underlings are driven out of the group - becoming easy targets for predators. The secret of a long meerkat life is to be "ruler of your community… cracking down on would-be rivals," say scientists. The Kalahari Meerkat Project investigates both ultimate and proximate causes of cooperative breeding in mammals. Longterm data from habituated groups of wild meerkats allow for a variety of empirical questions in evolutionary and behavioural ecology to be investigated at both the individual and population level. History. The Kalahari Research Centre (KRC) was established in 1993 on ranchland in the southern part of the South African Kalahari, close to the border of Botswana. In 2000 Tim Clutton-Brock, of Cambridge University, organised the funds to buy 3250 ha land including two farmhouses. |vya| bbp| otn| toh| xgh| buu| mas| fgo| qfa| cbx| lls| kcz| sqv| jve| zev| ago| vjj| lht| bsl| nxd| sqg| lyj| pjq| zcy| bnu| dkd| vai| rvv| ycb| ljl| rrw| wqf| cfy| zqk| col| cyl| kqh| sac| syx| piw| bcp| suz| tgz| txs| pqa| lol| uuf| hpy| ell| otv|