Niche partitioning facilitates coexistence of three apex predators in the Lapchi Valley, Central Himalaya, Nepal

• Narayan Prasad Koju ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: npkoju.2003@gmail.com

  Affiliations Center for Postgraduate Studies, Nepal Engineering College, Pokhara University, Lalitpur, Nepal, Key Laboratory of Genetic Evolution and Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4303-0520

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• Babita Maharjan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Central Department of Zoology, Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, Amrit Campus, Tribhuvan University, Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Meghajan Budha,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Goldengate International College, Tribhuvan University, Battisputali, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Ashim Thapamagar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Postgraduate Studies, Nepal Engineering College, Pokhara University, Lalitpur, Nepal

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• Nishan Pokhrel,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Goldengate International College, Tribhuvan University, Battisputali, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Miriam Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, China Exploration and Research Society, Hong Kong

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• Laxman Khanal,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Central Department of Zoology, Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2411-3627

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• Paul Buzzard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Washtenaw County Conservation District, United States of America

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• Xuelong Jiang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Genetic Evolution and Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Randall C. Kyes

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Departments of Global Health and Anthropology, Center for Global Field Study, Washington National Biomedical Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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