. Advances in the study of mammalian behavior. Mammals. 402 Spec. Publ. Amer. Soc. Mamm. 7. 100 m Caluromys philander Q home range I 1 CThome range Fig. 2. Caluromys philander home ranges determined by radio-tracking. Note the territory of a male which drifted 500 m after 2 months of observations. nately by conspecifics with overlapping home ranges. Compared to C. philander, P. opossum explores a larger area during the night (about 25,000 m-), probably resulting from its intensive exploration of the milieu to find animal prey (Gerard, pers. comm.). An interesting behavior is the urine-marking
. Advances in the study of mammalian behavior. Mammals. 402 Spec. Publ. Amer. Soc. Mamm. 7. 100 m Caluromys philander Q home range I 1 CThome range Fig. 2. Caluromys philander home ranges determined by radio-tracking. Note the territory of a male which drifted 500 m after 2 months of observations. nately by conspecifics with overlapping home ranges. Compared to C. philander, P. opossum explores a larger area during the night (about 25,000 m-), probably resulting from its intensive exploration of the milieu to find animal prey (Gerard, pers. comm.). An interesting behavior is the urine-marking displayed by C. philander. By lovs^ering the hindquarters this species deposits urine in a point or on a 10 to 20 cm trail along a branch. This is also typical of several prosimian species, such as Microcebus, Perodic- ticus, and Nycticebus. In the absence of any true territory, this behavior, frequently performed in fruiting trees, cannot be inter- preted as a territorial signal as is suggested by many authors for. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Eisenberg, John Frederick; Kleiman, Devra G; American Society of Mammalogists. [Shippensburg, Pa?] : American Society of Mammalogists
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