Determination of the consumed number of prey individuals in a hypothetical example of 100 collectable scats based on CF1 and CF2 derived from the cheetah feeding experiment of this study.

The calculations are shown for two sampling schemes and three hypothetical mean sizes of feeding groups. Q4 is the number of excreted collectable scats per prey individual and cheetah (see Table 2) and Q2 is feeding group size. For details see text. a, b, c see Table 2.