Social system and spatial organization of wild guinea pigs (Cavia aperea) in a natural population

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 788-796

  Asher, Matthias ^a   De Oliveira, Elisabeth Spinelli ^b   Sachser, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cavia aperea; Habitat use; Predation risk; Radiotelemetry; Single male system; Social system; Spatial organization; Wild cavy; Wild guinea pig

Indexed keywords

PREDATION RISK; RADIOTELEMETRY; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SPACE USE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA APEREA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CAVIIDAE; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 3142561046     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/BNS-012     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. ALCOCK, J. 2001. Animal behavior. An evolutionary approach. 7th ed. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
2. ANDERSSON, M. 1994. Sexual selection. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
3. AVERY, G. T. 1925. Notes on reproduction in guinea pigs. Journal of Comparative Psychology 5:373-396.
4. BERGER, J., AND E. F. STEVENS. 1996. Mammalian social organization and mating systems. Pp. 344-351 in Wild mammals in captivity - principles and techniques (D. G. Kleiman, M. E. Allen, K. V. Thompson, S. Lumpkin, and H. Harris, eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
5. BIRNEY, E. C., W. E. GRANT, AND D. D. BAIRD. 1976. Importance of vegetative cover to cycles of Microtus populations. Ecology 57:1043-1051.
6. BOWERS, M. A. 1990. Exploitation of seed aggregates by Merriam's kangaroo rat: harvesting rates and predatory risk. Ecology 71:2334-2344.
7. BOWERS, M. A., K. GREGARIO, C. J. BRAME, S. F. MATTER, AND J. L. J. DOOLEY. 1996. Use of space and habitats by meadow voles at the home range, patch and landscape scales. Oecologia 105:107-115.
8. BRECKLE, S.-W., AND H. WALTER. 2002. Walter's vegetation of the earth: the ecological systems of the geo-biosphere. 4th ed. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
9. CASSINI, M. H. 1991. Foraging under predation risk in the wild guinea pig Cavia aperea. Oikos 62:20-24.
10. CASSINI, M. H., AND M. L. GALANTE. 1992. Foraging under predation risk in the wild guinea pig: the effect of vegetation height on habitat utilization. Annales Zoologici Fennici 29:285-290.
11. CLUTTON-BROCK, T. H. 1989. Mammalian mating systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. Biological Sciences 236:339-372.
12. CLUTTON-BROCK, T. H., AND P. H. HARVEY. 1978. Mammals, resources and reproductive strategies. Nature 273:191-195.
13. COOPER, T. G., S. WEYDERT, C. H. YEUNG, C. KÜNZL, AND N. SACHSER. 2000. Maturation of epididymal spermatozoa in the nondomesticated guinea pigs Cavia aperea and Galea musteloides. Journal of Andrology 21:154-163.
14. COVICH, A. P. 1976. Analyzing shapes of foraging areas: some ecological and economic theories. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 7:235-258.
15. DAVIES, N. B. 1992. Dunnock behaviour and social evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
16. DE MENDONCA, P. G. 1999. Impact of radio-collars on yellow-necked mice, Apodemus flavicollis (Mammalia, Rodentia). Mammal Review 29:129-132.
17. EBENSPERGER, L. A., AND H. COFRÉ. 2001. On the evolution of group-living in the New World cursorial hystricognath rodents. Behavioral Ecology 12:227-236.
18. EMLEN, S. T., AND L. W. ORING. 1977. Ecology, sexual selection, and the evolution of mating systems. Science 197:215-223.
19. GUICHÓN, M. L., AND M. H. CASSINI. 1998. Role of diet selection in the use of habitat by pampas cavies Cavia aperea pamparum (Mammalia, Rodentia). Mammalia 62:23-35.
20. HARCOURT, A. H., P. H. HARVEY, S. G. LARSON, AND R. V. SHORT. 1981. Testis weight, body weight and breeding system in primates. Nature 293:55-57.
21. HARRIS, S., W. J. CRESSWELL, P. G. FORDE, W. J. TREWHELLA, T. WOOLLARD, AND S. WRAY. 1990. Home-range analysis using radio-tracking data - a review of problems and techniques particularly as applied to mammals. Mammal Review 20:97-123.
22. HESKE, E. J., AND R. S. OSTFELD. 1990. Sexual dimorphism in size, relative size of testes, and mating systems in North American voles. Journal of Mammalogy 71:510-519.
23. HOHOFF, C. 2002. Female choice in three species of wild guinea pigs. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
24. HOOGLAND, J. L. 1981. The evolution of coloniality in white-tailed and black-tailed prairie dogs (Sciuridae: Cynomys leucurus and C. ludovicianus). Ecology 62:252-272.
25. HÜCKINGHAUS, F. 1961. Zur Nomenklatur und Abstammung des Hausmeerschweinchens. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 26:108-111.
26. JARMAN, P. J. 1974. The social organisation of antelope in relation to their ecology. Behaviour 48:215-267.
27. KAISER, S., K. HEEMANN, R. H. STRAUB, AND N. SACHSER. 2003. The social environment affects behaviour and androgens, but not cortisol in pregnant female guinea pigs. Psychoneuroendocrinology 28:67-83.
28. KELT, D. A., AND D. H. VAN VUREN. 2001. The ecology and macroecology of mammalian home range area. American Naturalist 157:637-645.
29. KENAGY, G. J., AND S. C. TROMBULAK. 1986. Size and function of mammalian testes in relation to body size. Journal of Mammalogy 67:1-22.
30. KENWARD, R. 2001. A manual for wildlife radio tagging. Academic Press, London, United Kingdom.
31. KENWARD, R. E., AND K. H. HODDER. 1996. Ranges V: an analysis system for biological location data. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Furzebrook Research Station, Wareham, United Kingdom.
32. KLEIMAN, D. G. 1977. Monogamy in mammals. Quarterly Review of Biology 52:39-69.
33. KOTLER, B. P., J. S. BROWN, AND O. HASSON. 1991. Factors affecting gerbil foraging behavior and rates of owl predation. Ecology 72:2249-2260.
34. KREBS, J. R., AND N. B. DAVIES. 1993. An introduction to behavioural ecology. 3rd ed. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, United Kingdom.
35. KÜNZL, C., AND N. SACHSER. 1999. The behavioral endocrinology of domestication: a comparison between the domestic guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus) and its wild ancestor, the cavy (Cavia aperea). Hormones and Behavior 35:28-37.
36. LACHER, T. E. 1981. The comparative social behavior of Kerodon rupestris and Galea spixii and the evolution of behavior in the Caviidae. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 17:1-71.
37. LIMA, S. L. 1998. Stress and decision making under the risk of predation: recent developments from behavioral, reproductive, and ecological perspectives. Advances in the Study of Behavior 27:215-290.
38. LONGLAND, W. S., AND M. V. PRICE. 1991. Direct observation of owls and heteromyid rodents: can predation risk explain microhabitat use? Ecology 72:2261-2273.
39. LORENZI, H. 2000. Plantas daninhas do Brasil: terrestres, aquáticas, parasitas, tóxicas e medicinais. 3rd ed. Instituto Plantarum, Nova Odessa, São Paulo, Brasil.
40. MABBERLEY, D. J. 1997. The plant-book. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
41. MACDONALD, D. W., AND C. J. J. AMLANER. 1980. A practical guide to radio tracking. Pp. 143-159 in A handbook on biotelemetry and radio tracking (C. J. J. Amlaner and D. W. Macdonald, eds.). Pergamon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
42. MARES, M. A., AND R. A. OJEDA. 1982. Patterns of diversity and adaptation in South American hystricognath rodents. Pp. 393-432 in Mammalian biology in South America (M. A. Mares and H. H. Genoways, eds.). Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, Special Publications No. 6, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
43. MARTIN, P., AND P. BATESON. 1993. Measuring behaviour - an introductory guide. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
44. MITANI, J. C., J. GROS-LOUIS, AND A. F. RICHARDS. 1996. Sexual dimorphism, the operational sex ratio, and the intensity of male competition in polygynous primates. American Naturalist 147:966-980.
45. NOWAK, R. M. 1999. Walker's mammals of the world. Johns Hopkins University Press, London, United Kingdom.
46. OSTFELD, R. S., W. Z. LIDICKER, JR., AND E. J. HESKE. 1985. The relationship between habitat heterogeneity, space use, and demography in a population of California voles. Oikos 45:433-442.
47. RALLS, K. 1977. Sexual dimorphism in mammals: avian models and unanswered questions. American Naturalist 111:917-938.
48. REDFORD, K. H., AND J. F. EISENBERG. 1992. Mammals of the neotropics - the southern cone: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
49. REYNOLDS, J. D. 1996. Animal breeding systems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11:68-72.
50. RIBBLE, D. O., A. E. WURTZ, E. K. MCCONNELL, J. J. BUEGGE, AND K. C. WELCH. 2002. A comparison of home ranges of two species of Peromyscus using trapping and radiotelemetry data. Journal of Mammalogy 83:260-266.
51. ROOD, J. P. 1969. Observations on the ecology and behavior of Microcavia, Galea and Cavia. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 24:111-115.
52. ROOD, J. P. 1972. Ecological and behavioural comparisons of three genera of Argentine cavies. Animal Behaviour Monographs 5:1-83.
53. SACHSER, N. 1986. Different forms of social organization at high and low population densities in guinea pigs. Behaviour 97:252-272.
54. SACHSER, N. 1998. Of domestic and wild guinea pigs: studies in sociophysiology, domestication and social evolution. Naturwissenschaften 85:307-317.
55. SACHSER, N., E. SCHWARZ-WEIG, A. KEIL, AND J. T. EPPLEN. 1999. Behavioural strategies, testis size and reproductive success in two caviomorph rodents with different mating systems. Behaviour 136:1203-1217.
56. SALVATORI, V., A. K. SKIDMORE, F. CORSI, AND F. VAN DER MEER. 1999. Estimating temporal independence of radio-telemetry data on animal activity. Journal of Theoretical Biology 198:567-574.
57. SANTOS, E. 1981. Anfibios e répteis do Brasil (vida e costumes). 3rd ed. Editora Itatiaia Limitada, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
58. SCHOENER, T. W. 1981. An empirically based estimate of home range. Theoretical Population Biology 20:281-325.
59. SCHÜLKE, O., AND P. M. KAPPELER. 2003. So near and yet so far: territorial pairs but low cohesion between pair partners in a nocturnal lemur, Phaner furcifer. Animal Behaviour 65:331-343.
60. SICK, H. 1985. Ornitologia Brasileira, uma introdução. Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
61. SIEGEL, S., AND N. J. J. CASTELLAN. 1988. Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences. McGraw-Hill, New York.
62. STAHNKE, A., AND H. HENDRICHS. 1988. Meerschweinchenverwandte Nagetiere. Pp. 314-357 in Grzimeks enzyklopädie der säugetiere (B. Grzimek, ed.). Kindler Verlag, München, Germany.
63. SWIHART, R. K., AND N. A. SLADE. 1985. Testing for independence of observations in animal movements. Ecology 66:1176-1184.
64. TOGNELLI, M. F., C. M. CAMPOS, R. A. OJEDA, AND V. G. ROIG. 1995. Is Microcavia australis (Rodentia: Caviidae) associated with a particular plant structure in the Monte desert of Argentina? Mammalia 59:327-333.
65. TOUMA, C., R. PALME, AND N. SACHSER. 2001. Different types of oestrus cycle in two closely related South American rodents (Cavia aperea and Galea musteloides) with different social and mating systems. Reproduction 121:791-801.
66. WEIR, B. J. 1974. Notes on the origin of the domestic guinea-pig. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 34:437-446.
67. WHITE, G. C., AND R. A. GARROTT. 1990. Analysis of wildlife radio-tracking data. Academic Press, London, United Kingdom.
68. YOUNG, W. C. 1937. The vaginal smear picture, sexual receptivity and the time of ovulation in the guinea pig. Anatomical Record 67:305-325.
69. YOUNG, W. C. 1969. Psychobiology of sexual behavior in the guinea pig. Advances in the Study of Behavior 2:1-110.