The paper reports the results obtained over a period of 19 months (June 1992 to December 1993) from the study of the mounting behaviour of a pair of crested porcupines kept in semicaptivity under red light illumination. Forty-two mounting episodes which occurred inside the artificial burrow were recorded by a videocamera and subsequently analysed to describe the sequence of the mounting and copulation behaviour. The crested porcupine has a rather articulate courtship pattern. In this species, as in the Indian crested porcupine, mounting and copulation occurs throughout the year and appears to be independent of the reproductive status.
The mounting and copulation behaviour of the crested porcupine Hystrix cristata
FELICIOLI, ANTONIO;
1997-01-01
Abstract
The paper reports the results obtained over a period of 19 months (June 1992 to December 1993) from the study of the mounting behaviour of a pair of crested porcupines kept in semicaptivity under red light illumination. Forty-two mounting episodes which occurred inside the artificial burrow were recorded by a videocamera and subsequently analysed to describe the sequence of the mounting and copulation behaviour. The crested porcupine has a rather articulate courtship pattern. In this species, as in the Indian crested porcupine, mounting and copulation occurs throughout the year and appears to be independent of the reproductive status.File in questo prodotto:
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