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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
arts and humanities
A cautionary note on the use of captive carnivores to model wild predator behavior: A comparison of bone modification patterns on long bones by captive and wild lions
Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 40, No. 4, Year 2013
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A study with wild lions in Tarangire National Park (Tanzania) and with captive lions in Cabárceno Reserve (Spain) has yielded two different bone modification patterns, probably as a result of the differences in environmental contexts. Captive lions have modified bones more intensively, both in the form of total number of tooth-marked bones and number of tooth marks per tooth-marked bone, probably because of stereotypic behaviors. This emphasizes the importance of environmental contexts to understand carnivore behavior and their resulting bone modification patterns. It also shows that analogical models based on experiments carried out with captive carnivores may be biased and inadequate as proxies for wild carnivore bone modification behaviors. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Gidna, Agness Onna
Spain, Madrid
Museo de Los Orígenes
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
National Museum of Tanzania
Yravedra Sainz de Los Terreros, José
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel
Spain, Madrid
Museo de Los Orígenes
Spain, Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Statistics
Citations: 107
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.jas.2012.11.023
ISSN:
03054403
e-ISSN:
10959238
Study Locations
Tanzania