MATE SEARCHING BEHAVIOR OF ELEPHANT BULLS IN A SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENT

被引：34

作者：

BARNES, RFW

机构：

[1] SUBDEPT ANIM BEHAV, CAMBRIDGE CB3 8AA, ENGLAND

[2] SERENGETI RES INST, ARUSHA, TANZANIA

来源：

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR | 1982年 / 30卷 / NOV期

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D O I：

10.1016/S0003-3472(82)80214-5

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

In the wet season, African elephant (L. africana Blumenbach) bulls switched from a strategy associated with feeding to one where they traveled long distances in search of estrous females. Bulls which associated with cows behaved quite differently from other bulls. In sparse elephant populations a bull may have a greater chance of associating with an estrous female if he lives permanently with a group of cows (the traditional concept of the herd bull) instead of searching for receptive cows during the mating season.

引用

页码：1217 / 1223

页数：7

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