(Source: Princeton University) Posted October 26, 2015; 12:00 p.m. by Morgan Kelly, Office of Communications Princeton University researchers deployed a new tool to help solve an old ecological puzzle: How can multiple animals coexist while eating the same resources? They used 'DNA metabarcoding' to determine the specific plants that herbivores inhabiting the Kenyan savanna eat. They found that animals such as the dik-dik (above) - antelopes the size of a small dog - have distinct diets, which enables numerous species to inhabit the same ecosystem without strong competition. Photo by Robert Pringle, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Africa's abundant and iconic wildlife provides...
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