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Provedor de dados: | 81
País: | Argentina
Título: | Characteristics of defecation sites of the Geoffroy´s cat Leopardus geoffroyi
Autores: | Soler,Lucía; Lucherini,Mauro; Manfredi,Claudia; Ciuccio,Mariano; Casanave,Emma B.
Data: | 2009-12-01
Ano: | 2009
Palavras-chave: | Carnivores; Felids; Latrines; Scent marking.
Resumo: | Little is known about the use of feces in scent marking by small wildcats. We analyzed the characteristics of 357 Geoffroy's cat, Leopardus geoffroyi, defecation sites in five protected areas of Argentina. Defecation sites were mainly found in trees (47.6%) or on the ground (38.1%), and the frequency of occurrence of the types of sites differed between areas. Almost half (47.3%) of defecation sites were latrines, with 6.1 ± 3.6 (mean ± SD) feces each. Geoffroy's cats were flexible in the choice of defecation sites, but mainly deposited feces in latrines located in conspicuous sites. These results suggest that Geoffroy's cats use feces in olfactory/visual communication.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0327-93832009000200024
Editor: | Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos (SAREM)
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Mastozoología neotropical  v.16 n.2 2009
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess