Intrasexual social behaviour of female Apennine chamoisRupicapra pyrenaica ornata(Neumann 1899)
作者:
S. Lovari,
M. Locati,
期刊:
Ethology Ecology & Evolution
(Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 3
页码: 347-356
ISSN:0394-9370
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1080/08927014.1993.9523022
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: chamois;social behaviour;dominance;activity sequences
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Seventeen behaviour patterns used in female-female interactions were analysed for both their frequencies and temporal relationships in Apennine chamois. Withdrawing and the Approach built up, respectively, 38.4 and 21.3% of all activities. All other behaviour patterns showed much smaller frequencies (< 8%). A close relationship was found between Approach, Lipcurl, Head down, Side Display and Stare: all aggressive patterns. Butt, Chase, Hook and Rush proved to be associated, confirming their intensive bellicose quality. The communicative function of female Lipcurl has been confirmed as an aggressive ritualised behaviour, perhaps of “male mimicry”, with elements of submissive behaviour. Low-stretch, Reactive Urination and Withdrawing grouped logether as submissive patterns. Intrasexual female behavioural sequences appeared much more predictable than those of males, which is probably related to the different gregariousness patterns of the two sexes.
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