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| Diamond, J.M. | |
| How great white sharks, sabre-toothed cats and soldiers kill | |
| 1986 Nature (332): 773-774 | |
Predators that attack large prey endowed with fromidable defensive weapons face a dilemma. If the victim is not incapacitated by the first blow and the predator must continue to engage the victim in order to kill it, the predator itself risks injury. Recent studies suggest that two quite different large predators-the great white shark and the extinct sabre-toothed catss - independently evolved the same solution to this dilemma. |
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