Flexible spatial organization of urban foxes, Vulpes vulpes, before and during an outbreak of sarcoptic mange
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The resource dispersion hypothesis (RDH) can adequately explain differences in group size and territory size in a population of urban red foxes before an outbreak of sarcoptic mange. After the disease outbreak, this hypothesis failed to predict the fast adjustment of territory size as a reaction to the elimination of neighbouring groups. The RDH seems to have restricted applicability for primitively social species in situations where a population is not at capacity.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
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Is reduced affiliative rather than increased agonistic behavior associated with dispersal in red foxes?
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Social behavior based on affiliative and agonistic interactions in red foxes is investigated. The extent of chewing on plastic eartags is used as an indirect measure of affiliative behavior. Results show that whereas dispersal in males is influenced by affiliative interactions early in life, the causes of dispersal in females are different and occur later in life.Lastly, the value of such an indirect approach for monitoring affiliative behavior is discussed.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1992
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Potential fitness benefits of group living in the red fox, Vulpes vulpes
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A study of the living behavior of the red fox, Vulpes vulpes, showed that more offsprings stayed on their natal territory than dispersed and that mortality rate of dispersing individuals was high. Results also showed a high annual rate of retention of dominant status and annual mortality rare of subdominant animals. The relative success of dispersal and philopatry as ways to dominance were also found to be similar, suggesting that some other benefit of territorial inheritance was accrued by philopatric individuals.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
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