Carnivorous animals like lions, leopards occupy the same niche but lions predate mostly larger animals and leopards take smaller ones. This mechanism of competition is referred to as

character displacement

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altruism

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resource partitioning

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competitive exclusion

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Solution

The correct option is C resource partitioning
Species facing competition might evolves mechanism that promotes co-existence rather exclusion. One such mechanism is resource partitioning.
Resource partitioning is the division of limited resources by species to help avoid competition in an ecological niche. Example - carnivorous animals like lions, leopards occupy the same niche but lions predate mostly larger animals and leopards take smaller ones.

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