Antiextinction Tip: Eat to Live

A cosmopolitan diet may have helped the California condor avoid the fate of many other large scavenging birds 12,000 years ago. Although the ultimate cause of extinction of the mammoths and other large herbivores is still debated, it is clear that their demise had drastic effects that cascaded throu...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2004-11, Vol.306 (5701), p.1466-1467
1. Verfasser:	Stokstad, Erik
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Beliefs, opinions and attitudes Birds Condors Diet Extinction Food Glacial epoch Ice ages Paleontologists Paleontology Prehistoric era
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Zusammenfassung:	A cosmopolitan diet may have helped the California condor avoid the fate of many other large scavenging birds 12,000 years ago. Although the ultimate cause of extinction of the mammoths and other large herbivores is still debated, it is clear that their demise had drastic effects that cascaded through food webs.
ISSN:	0036-8075 1095-9203
DOI:	10.1126/science.306.5701.1466b