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Here, we use overlapping spatio‐temporal activity and GPS data on lions (<jats:italic>Panthera leo</jats:italic>), leopards, African wild dogs (<jats:italic>Lycaon pictus</jats:italic>) and cheetahs (<jats:italic>Acinonyx jubatus</jats:italic>) to examine spatial interactions and temporal partitioning between leopards and other guild members in northern Botswana. We found that at the population level, male leopard space use and activity patterns were largely unaffected by intraguild competitors. Leopards showed minimal movement coherence with competitors (avoidance or attraction) when moving through areas of home ranges shared with intraguild species. Moreover, we found evidence to support the hypothesis that guild species’ activity patterns are primarily driven by light availability rather than predator avoidance. Our results suggest predator avoidance has a limited impact on broad‐scale leopard spatio‐temporal niches, with aspects of the leopards’ ecology and life history likely facilitating its ability to thrive in close proximity to competitors. Considered alongside other studies, our results suggest that landscape‐level approaches to conservation may be suitable for aiding leopard conservation.</jats:p>","journal":"Journal of Zoology","year":2020,"id":17863,"datarank":1.133324564188756,"base_score":3.4011973816621555,"endowment":3.4011973816621555,"self_citation_contribution":0.5101796072493234,"citation_network_contribution":0.6231449569394325,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5101796072493234,"citer_contribution":0.6231449569394325,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":29,"citer_count":25,"citers_with_citation_signal":25,"citers_with_endowment":25,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":126265,"name":"M. 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