Family feuds -- why close relatives keep their distance in the animal kingdom

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 04:35 in Biology & Nature

Mammals cannot share their habitat with closely related species because the need for the same kind of food and shelter would lead them to compete to the death, according to new research out today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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