Broad aggressive interactions among African carnivores suggest intraguild killing is driven by more than competition [Data]

  • Gonçalo Curveira-Santos (Contributor)
  • Laura Gigliotti (Contributor)
  • André Silva (Contributor)
  • Chris Sutherland (Contributor)
  • Stefan Foord (Contributor)
  • Margarida Santos-Reis (Contributor)
  • Lourens Swanepoel (Contributor)

Dataset

Description

This is the data on intraguild killing and aggression among African carnivores used in Curveira-Santos et al. "Broad aggressive interactions among African carnivores suggest intraguild killing is driven by more than competition". Interspecific killing and aggression events were recorded from Google Image results and collapsed to pairwise binary outcomes (0 – no interaction, 1 – at least one photo with interaction).
The .csv files contain the following datasets:
1) “kill_matrix” – aggressor (columns) by victim (rows) adjacency matrix for the ‘kill’ dataset (i.e., the victim was visibly dead);
2) “kill_attack_matrix” - aggressor (columns) by victim (rows) adjacency matrix for the extended ‘kill/attack’ dataset (i.e., the victim was visibly dead or was alive and visibly attacked or pursued by the aggressor);
3) “pairwise_structure” – pair-specific ‘kill’ and ‘kill/attack’ data, and covariates used to model the probability of pairwise interactions (aggressor body-mass [“BM”], aggressor predatory habits [“PHAB”], body-mass ratio [“BMR”], family [“FAM”], dietary overlap [“DIET”]). Covariate descriptions and model formulation details are provided in the main article. Note that this dataset contains only pairwise interactions in which the aggressor species is heavier than the victim (average adult body-mass) and includes kill data for pairs reported in Donadio and Buskirk (2009 American Naturalist) but missing from Google Images results.
Date made available1 Jan 2021
PublisherFigshare

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