Volume 9-14 (2020-26)
v11i2.291ISSN: 1800-427X (printed)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.291
Submitted date: 9 May 2022
Accepted date: 30 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 111–113.
Scent rubbing in carnivore species at Gavier Lake, Gujarat, India
K. Trivedi*, C. Patel & A. Desai
*Corresponding author. E-mail: krunal.trivedi.7567@gmail.com
Scents are one of the most common means of animal communication. Some animals use scent communication for many purposes including determining age and sex, marking their territories, and finding mates. Scent rubbing is a poorly understood way of marking in which animals rub their bodies against a variety of surfaces, many of which have intense odours. Individuals collapse their forelegs then push forward with their hind legs, rubbing their face, neck, and back onto the destination of the scent in the most well-known occurrences among carnivores. Most commonly, they put their own scent on the object while infusing the object’s scents onto their bodies. Faeces of other animals, meat, intestinal contents and insecticide are among the substances that elicit scent-rubbing. As a result, the subject's pelages are infused with the odour of these substances. Odours produced by sweat glands, urine, faeces and vaginal secretions often induce this behaviour, which is prominent in carnivore species. They scent rub as an olfactory communication method, releasing chemical odours to increase the chances of being recognised by conspecifics. Canids and other carnivores are well known for rubbing themselves on various scents, while smaller carnivores have been shown to increase caution and alter their feeding behaviour when exposed to the scent of larger carnivores .
Section Editor: Lee Harding
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.291
Submitted date: 9 May 2022
Accepted date: 30 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 111–113.
Scent rubbing in carnivore species at Gavier Lake, Gujarat, India
K. Trivedi*, C. Patel & A. Desai
*Corresponding author. E-mail: krunal.trivedi.7567@gmail.com
Scents are one of the most common means of animal communication. Some animals use scent communication for many purposes including determining age and sex, marking their territories, and finding mates. Scent rubbing is a poorly understood way of marking in which animals rub their bodies against a variety of surfaces, many of which have intense odours. Individuals collapse their forelegs then push forward with their hind legs, rubbing their face, neck, and back onto the destination of the scent in the most well-known occurrences among carnivores. Most commonly, they put their own scent on the object while infusing the object’s scents onto their bodies. Faeces of other animals, meat, intestinal contents and insecticide are among the substances that elicit scent-rubbing. As a result, the subject's pelages are infused with the odour of these substances. Odours produced by sweat glands, urine, faeces and vaginal secretions often induce this behaviour, which is prominent in carnivore species. They scent rub as an olfactory communication method, releasing chemical odours to increase the chances of being recognised by conspecifics. Canids and other carnivores are well known for rubbing themselves on various scents, while smaller carnivores have been shown to increase caution and alter their feeding behaviour when exposed to the scent of larger carnivores .
Section Editor: Lee Harding
v11i2.290ISSN: 1800-427X (printed)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.290
Submitted date: 20 March 2022
Accepted date: 29 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 109–110, Pl. 34.
Biofluorescence in the masked palm civet (Paguma larvata)
A. Borzée* & Z.Q. Wang
*Corresponding author. E-mail: amaelborzee@gmail.com
Biofluorescence has come to general public attention over the last decade with the industrial production of “black lights”. While numerous reports on biofluorescence have become available for some groups of species such as invertebrates, birds, amphibians, and reptiles, there are fewer reports on fluorescence in mammals. So far, ultraviolet fluorescence is known from a few mammal species only, including flying squirrels, mice, Chinese pangolins, Virginia opossums and other didelphid marsupials, springhares, African pygmy hedgehogs, European hedgehogs, and platypuses. The fluorescence is, however, not produced by the animal itself in the case of hedgehogs, but by commensal bacteria. Green fluorescence can also be expressed by transgenic animals, including non-human primates, and the trait can become inheritable.
Section Editor: Lee Harding
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.290
Submitted date: 20 March 2022
Accepted date: 29 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 109–110, Pl. 34.
Biofluorescence in the masked palm civet (Paguma larvata)
A. Borzée* & Z.Q. Wang
*Corresponding author. E-mail: amaelborzee@gmail.com
Biofluorescence has come to general public attention over the last decade with the industrial production of “black lights”. While numerous reports on biofluorescence have become available for some groups of species such as invertebrates, birds, amphibians, and reptiles, there are fewer reports on fluorescence in mammals. So far, ultraviolet fluorescence is known from a few mammal species only, including flying squirrels, mice, Chinese pangolins, Virginia opossums and other didelphid marsupials, springhares, African pygmy hedgehogs, European hedgehogs, and platypuses. The fluorescence is, however, not produced by the animal itself in the case of hedgehogs, but by commensal bacteria. Green fluorescence can also be expressed by transgenic animals, including non-human primates, and the trait can become inheritable.
Section Editor: Lee Harding
v11i2.289ISSN: 1800-427X (printed)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.289
Submitted date: 29 May 2022
Accepted date: 29 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 107–108.
Northernmost distribution of Indian brown mongoose (Herpestes fuscus)
N. Singh*, R. Govekar & A. Pathak
*Corresponding author. E-mail: nishanicky1210@gmail.com
The Indian brown mongoose, Herpestes fuscus is among the six species of mongoose found in India. The species can be distinguished from other species of mongoose by its dark brown fur, black legs and thick, furry and conical tail. Brown mongoose has a restricted and disjunct distribution, with two populations of the nominate H. f. fuscus in the Western Ghats (Karnataka and Kerala) in Southern India and three other subspecies along the western coast of Sri Lanka. In southern India, brown mongoose has been recorded in wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from altitudes ranging between 450 to over 2,000 m a.s.l. Recently it has been recorded from Tadoba-Andheri Tiger Reserve, about 160 km south of Pench, also in Maharashtra.
Section Editor: Lee Harding
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.289
Submitted date: 29 May 2022
Accepted date: 29 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 107–108.
Northernmost distribution of Indian brown mongoose (Herpestes fuscus)
N. Singh*, R. Govekar & A. Pathak
*Corresponding author. E-mail: nishanicky1210@gmail.com
The Indian brown mongoose, Herpestes fuscus is among the six species of mongoose found in India. The species can be distinguished from other species of mongoose by its dark brown fur, black legs and thick, furry and conical tail. Brown mongoose has a restricted and disjunct distribution, with two populations of the nominate H. f. fuscus in the Western Ghats (Karnataka and Kerala) in Southern India and three other subspecies along the western coast of Sri Lanka. In southern India, brown mongoose has been recorded in wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from altitudes ranging between 450 to over 2,000 m a.s.l. Recently it has been recorded from Tadoba-Andheri Tiger Reserve, about 160 km south of Pench, also in Maharashtra.
Section Editor: Lee Harding
v11i2.288ISSN: 1800-427X (printed)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.288
Submitted date: 9 March 2022
Accepted date: 29 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 103–106, Pl. 33.
Nest fidelity of purple sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) on communal webs of a spider
P. Selvaraj* & S. Kamalanathan
*Corresponding author. E-mail: prachemist@gmail.com
Nest predation is a major cause of avian breeding failure and parent birds adopt various anti-nest predation strategies to increase the survival rate of offspring. Purple sunbird uses snake moults as nest-building material, which could be a tactic to avoid predation of eggs and hatchlings inside the nest.
Section Editor: Sumudu Fernando
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.288
Submitted date: 9 March 2022
Accepted date: 29 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 103–106, Pl. 33.
Nest fidelity of purple sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) on communal webs of a spider
P. Selvaraj* & S. Kamalanathan
*Corresponding author. E-mail: prachemist@gmail.com
Nest predation is a major cause of avian breeding failure and parent birds adopt various anti-nest predation strategies to increase the survival rate of offspring. Purple sunbird uses snake moults as nest-building material, which could be a tactic to avoid predation of eggs and hatchlings inside the nest.
Section Editor: Sumudu Fernando
v11i2.287ISSN: 1800-427X (printed)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.287
Submitted date: 16 March 2022
Accepted date: 29 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 99–102, Pl. 32.
The herpetofauna in Sarpang District, Bhutan
J. Tenzin*, S. Nidup, G. Gyeltsen, T. Tshomo, A. Nepal & J.T. Wangyal
*Corresponding author. E-mail: jigmetenzin16@gmail.com
Although several checklists exist of herpetofauna in Bhutan, these are based on citizen science data or report the diversity of individual regions and published records are lacking for many areas. Like the country as a whole, there is no formal checklist or report for Sarpang District despite the fact that most of this district is encompassed within three protected areas namely Royal Manas National Park, Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, and Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary.
Section Editor: Sanjaya K. Bandara
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v11i2.287
Submitted date: 16 March 2022
Accepted date: 29 October 2022
Published date: 22 November 2022
Pp. 99–102, Pl. 32.
The herpetofauna in Sarpang District, Bhutan
J. Tenzin*, S. Nidup, G. Gyeltsen, T. Tshomo, A. Nepal & J.T. Wangyal
*Corresponding author. E-mail: jigmetenzin16@gmail.com
Although several checklists exist of herpetofauna in Bhutan, these are based on citizen science data or report the diversity of individual regions and published records are lacking for many areas. Like the country as a whole, there is no formal checklist or report for Sarpang District despite the fact that most of this district is encompassed within three protected areas namely Royal Manas National Park, Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, and Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary.
Section Editor: Sanjaya K. Bandara
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