Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America
| Autor: | Bruce D. Allen, David A. Raichlen, Tommy Urban, Jackson Jakeway, Vincent L. Santucci, Matthew R. Bennett, Vance T. Holliday, David Bustos, Marcin Budka, Daniel Odess, P. Willey, David W. Love, Sally C. Reynolds, H. Gregory McDonald, Brendan Fenerty |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
010506 paleontology Pleistocene Trace fossil 01 natural sciences Predation 03 medical and health sciences biology.animal Animals Humans Applied Ecology Research Articles 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Multidisciplinary biology Ecology Fossils Vertebrate SciAdv r-articles Paleontology Geology 15. Life on land Sloth Sloths body regions National monument 030104 developmental biology Archaeology Anthropology North America human activities Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Science Advances 2375-2548) |
| ISSN: | 2375-2548 |
| Popis: | Contemporaneous sloth and human footprints from the terminal Pleistocene at White Sands National Monument suggest stalking. 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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