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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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A, C
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