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Provedor de dados: | Revista Brasileira de Zoologia
País: | Brazil
Título: | Diurnal roosts and minimum home range defined by sleeping sites of a thin-spined porcupine Chaetomys subspinosus (Rodentia: Erethizontidae)
Autores: | Zortéa,Marlon; Brito,Bernardo F. A. de.
Data: | 2010-04-01
Ano: | 2010
Palavras-chave: | Atlantic forest; Conservation; Radio-tracking; Roost; Thin-spined porcupine; Translocation.
Resumo: | The thin-spined porcupine Chaetomys subspinosus (Olfers, 1818) is a species endemic to the extremely disturbed and fragmented Brazilian Atlantic forest. Little is known about its natural history. We analyzed the preferences of porcupine diurnal roost and home range, based on one relocated adult male that was radio-monitored during 1999. The individual was captured in the urban zone of Santa Teresa, Brazil, and relocated to a forest reserve 6 km from the capture site. The thin-spined porcupine feeds only on leaves. It prefers intermediate forest stratum (6-15 m of height) for roosting during daytime, generally using inclined branches with a diameter of 2 to 5 cm. Most observations indicated a prehensile tail position. Home range was relatively large (15.81 ha) for an arboreal animal of this size and new areas were still being explored after five months of monitoring.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702010000200008
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1984-46702010000200008
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Zoologia (Curitiba)  v.27 n.2 2010
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess