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This study investigated the influence of cat urine odour in suppressing development and fertility in Campbell's hamster males.
Exposure to this odour from postnatal day 11 until day 45 (sexual maturation) resulted in reduced sex organ weights, reduced
testosterone levels and in an increase in abnormalities of the synaptonemal complex in both sex chromosomes and autosomes.
Subsequent breeding experiments revealed a significant decrease in litter size. All these data indicate a severe effect of
predator odour on the breeding success of potential prey species. It is assumed that these effects are caused by the sulphurous
compounds in the urine; however, the underlying mechanisms are not yet known.
Received: 31 January 2000 / Accepted in revised form: 6 June 2000 相似文献
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Vera A. Matrosova Ilya A. Volodin Elena V. Volodina Nina A. Vasilieva 《Die Naturwissenschaften》2010,97(8):707-715
The questions of individuality and stability of cues to identity in vocal signals are of considerable importance from theoretical
and conservation perspectives. While individuality in alarm calls has been reported for many sciurids, it is not well-documented
that the vocal identity encoded in the alarm calls is stable between different encounters with predators. Previous studies
of two obligate hibernating rodents, speckled ground squirrels Spermophilus suslicus, and yellow ground squirrels Spermophilus fulvus demonstrated that, after hibernation, most individuals could not be identified reliably by their alarm calls. Moreover, in
most speckled ground squirrels, individual patterns of alarm calls changed progressively over as little as 2 weeks. However,
these previous data have been obtained using the collection of alarm calls from trapped animals. Here, we examined ten free-ranging
dye-marked yellow ground squirrels to determine whether their alarm calls retain the cues to individuality between two encounters
of surrogate predators (humans), separated on average by 3 days. Discriminant function analysis showed that the alarm calls
of individual yellow ground squirrels were very similar within a recording session, providing very high individual distinctiveness.
However, in six of the ten animals, the alarm calls were unstable between recording sessions. Also, we examined ten dye-marked
individuals for consistency of acoustic characteristics of their alarm calls between the encounters of humans, differing in
techniques of call collection, from free-ranging vs trapped animals. We found differences only in two variables, both related
to sound degradation in the environment. Data are discussed in relation to hypotheses explaining the adaptive utility of acoustic
individuality in alarm calls. 相似文献
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