The scent-marking behaviour of the spotted hyaena Crocuta crocuta in the southern Kalahari
The scent-marking behaviour of the spotted hyaena Crocuta crocuta in the southern Kalahari
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卡拉哈里南部斑鬣狗 Crocuta crocuta 的气味标记行为
DOI：
10.1111/j.1469-7998.1987.tb02919.x
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发表时间：
1987
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
M. Gorman
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作者：
M. Mills;M. Gorman
所有鬣狗的气味都是通过用它们尾下的气味腺中的糊状物涂抹草茎和在厕所里排泄来标记它们的领地的，但是它们在如何在它们的领地上散布这些气味标记方面采取了不同的策略。例如，生活在喀拉哈里南部的棕色鬣狗在它们的整个领土上存款浆糊和厕所，而生活在东非恩戈罗恩戈罗火山口的斑点鬣狗则把它们的气味标记严格地沿着领土边界。我们在其他地方（戈尔曼和米尔斯，1984）认为，这些不同的策略不是物种特异性的，而是对当地条件的适应性反应。在这里，我们使用的数据，从人口的斑点鬣狗，生活在小氏族和大领土的喀拉哈里沙漠，测试的假设，即腹地标记是一个响应的问题，标记一个非常大的领土有限的气味量和有限的时间预算。
All hyaenas scent mark their territories by smearing grass stems with paste from their subcaudal scent glands and by depositing faeces at latrines, but they adopt different strategies in terms of how they disperse these scent marks in their territories. For example, brown hyaenas living in the southern Kalahari deposit pastes and latrines throughout the whole of their territory, while spotted hyaenas living in the Ngorongoro Crater of East Africa place their scent marks strictly along the territorial borders. We have argued elsewhere (Gorman & Mills, 1984) that these different strategies are not species-specific but are instead adaptive responses to local conditions. Here, we use data from a population of spotted hyaenas, living in small clans and large territories in the Kalahari, to test the hypothesis that hinterland marking is a response to the problem of marking a very large territory with a limited amount of scent and within a limited time budget.