Organisms and Populations Question 34
34. Carnivorous animals - lions and leopards, occupy the same niche but lions predate mostly larger animals and leopards take smaller ones. This mechanism of competition is referred to as-
(a) Competitive exclusion
(b) Character displacement
(c) Altruism
(d) Resource partitioning
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Answer : d
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(d) If two species compete for the same resource, they could avoid competition by choosing, for instance different times for feeding or different foraging patterns. Such mechanism is called resource partitioning.
