The team compared the giant panda's different areas of fur with the dark and light coloring of 195
other carnivore species and 39 bear subspecies.
Not exact matches
Although there are seven
other native
carnivore species on the island, the fossa is largely credited with keeping lemur populations in check.
And
other cooperative creatures, including numerous birds and
carnivore species, exhibit that same pattern of reproductive dominance by one or a few females.
According to a report published today in the journal Science, female African lions have an egalitarian breeding systemsetting them apart from not only
other social
carnivores but even males of their own
species.
Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key
species — such as large
carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many
others depend — would shelter additional
species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.
Clayton suspects that
other species may be able match the cooperative abilities of chimps, elephants and rooks — especially social
carnivores that hunt in packs.
There are
other examples of very similar
species overlapping and eventually one of them getting pushed out, explained Martínez - Navarro, especially involving
carnivores out of Africa.