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

  • [NEET 2019]
  • A

    Character displacement

  • B

    Altruism

  • C

    Resource partitioning

  • D

    Competitive exclusion

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