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ToolsBustos, D., Jakeway, J., Urban, T.M., Holliday, V.T., Fenerty, B., Raichlen, D.A., Budka, M., Reynolds, S. C., Allen, B.D., Love, D.W., Santucci, V.L., Odess, D., Willey, P., McDonald, H.G. and Bennett, M. R., 2018. Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America. Science Advances, 4 (4), eaar7621.
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Abstract
Predator-prey interactions revealed by vertebrate trace fossils are extremely rare. We present footprint evidence from White Sands National Monument in New Mexico for the association of sloth and human trackways. Geologically, the sloth and human trackways were made contemporaneously, and the sloth trackways show evidence of evasion and defensive behavior when associated with human tracks. Behavioral inferences from these trackways indicate prey selection and suggest that humans were harassing, stalking, and/or hunting the now-extinct giant ground sloth in the terminal Pleistocene.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSN: | 2375-2548) |
| Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
| ID Code: | 30670 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
| Deposited On: | 04 May 2018 09:08 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:10 |
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