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Giraffe nursing behaviour reflects environmental conditions

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F17%3A74729" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/17:74729 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/60460709:41340/17:74729

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003413" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003413</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003413" target="_blank" >10.1163/1568539X-00003413</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Giraffe nursing behaviour reflects environmental conditions

  • Original language description

    Nursing behaviour is one component of mammalian life history strategy that demonstrates context-dependent flexibility within species. Wild giraffes live in groups and feed themselves over large area. In the zoo, giraffes are kept in enclosures with abundant food resources. We aimed to analyse whether the nursing behaviour of giraffes differs between the zoo and nature reserve and discuss which factor (food intake, presence of predators, population density) can explain the difference. We observed seven and four female-calf pairs in the Bandia reserve, Senegal, and in Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, respectively. Nursing bouts were less frequent and longer and calves were less successful in nursing solicitations in the reserve, as females there seemed to be more selective for nursing times and locations, likely due to presence of predators and differences in food intake. Allonursing occurred more frequently in the zoo which can be attributed to higher population density in captive conditions.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10614 - Behavioral sciences biology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    BEHAVIOUR

  • ISSN

    0005-7959

  • e-ISSN

    1568-539X

  • Volume of the periodical

    154

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    15

  • Pages from-to

    115-129

  • UT code for WoS article

    000392199200006

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85009106936