Prey Preferences of the Jaguar Panthera onca Reflect the Post-Pleistocene Demise of Large Prey
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1 School of Biological Sciences, School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK, 2 Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 3 Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 4 Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, University of Oxford, Abingdon, UK, 5 Panthera, New York, NY, USA, 6 Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, 7 Conservation Biogeography Lab, Ecology Department, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil, 8 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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