Thanatological behavior of a female Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca)

IF 1.1 4区 生物学 Q4 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES acta ethologica Pub Date : 2021-03-11 DOI:10.1007/s10211-021-00364-z
Reuven Yosef, Hemant Dabi, Swapnil Kumbhojkar
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We report an observation at Jhalana Leopard Reserve (JLR), Jaipur, India. On 16 March 2019, we saw a female walking up the mountain while calling her two, 4-month-old, male and female cubs. This allowed several safari jeeps to park in the shade of nearby Acacia trees. Two Striped Hyenas (Hyaena hyaena) approached and sniffed at the base of one of the trees near the parked jeeps. Upon seeing the Hyaenas, the female ran down the mountain, passed between the jeeps, and climbed into the tree. That is when we noticed the body of the female cub at a height of approximately 4.5 m. The female licked the body of the cub for several minutes and then picked it up in her mouth, climbed down from the tree, passed again between the jeeps, and walked up the mountain towards a dense stand of Thor (Euphorbia caducifolia), a thorny cactus. Our observations display how a mother leopard that has lost a cub refuses to abandon the carcass, cached it in a tree, and when discovered by scavengers removed it to a thicket of cacti. We consider the behavior towards her dead cub, and subsequent caching when discovered by other animals, to be the first evidence for thanatological expression in leopards.

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雌性豹(Panthera pardus fusca)的死亡行为
我们报告了在印度斋浦尔Jhalana豹保护区(JLR)的一次观察。2019年3月16日,我们看到一只母熊一边爬上山,一边叫着她两个月大、四个月大的雄性和雌性幼崽。这使得几辆狩猎吉普车可以停在附近金合欢树的树荫下。两只条纹鬣狗(Hyaena Hyaena)走近停在吉普车附近的一棵树的底部,嗅了嗅。看到鬣狗后,母狼跑下山,穿过吉普车,爬上了树。就在那时,我们注意到了大约4.5米高的雌性幼崽的尸体。母熊舔了几分钟幼崽的身体,然后把它叼在嘴里,从树上爬下来,再次穿过吉普车,向山上长满荆棘仙人掌的托尔(Euphorbia caducifolia)走去。我们的观察显示,失去幼崽的母豹拒绝抛弃幼崽的尸体,将幼崽藏在树上,被食腐动物发现后,将幼崽移到仙人掌树丛中。我们认为,豹子对待死去幼崽的行为,以及被其他动物发现后的贮藏行为,是豹子死亡学表达的第一个证据。
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acta ethologica
acta ethologica 生物-动物学
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: acta ethologica publishes empirical and theoretical research papers, short communications, commentaries, reviews and book reviews as well as methods papers in the field of ethology and related disciplines, with a strong concentration on the behavior biology of humans and other animals. The journal places special emphasis on studies integrating proximate (mechanisms, development) and ultimate (function, evolution) levels in the analysis of behavior. Aspects of particular interest include: adaptive plasticity of behavior, inter-individual and geographic variations in behavior, mechanisms underlying behavior, evolutionary processes and functions of behavior, and many other topics. acta ethologica is an official journal of ISPA, CRL and the Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE)
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