野生大熊猫的噬骨行为

IF 1.3 4区生物学 Q4 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

acta ethologica Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI:10.1007/s10211-025-00471-1

Thomas Connor, Jiangping Wang, Wenwen Deng, Tao Deng, Xiao Zhou, Yang Liu, Maiju Qiao

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摘要

在几年的粪便采样过程中，我们报告了中国四川省野生大熊猫噬骨的两起不同事件。为了确认这些致密的白色粪便颗粒是熊猫的骨头，我们将样本送到矿物学实验室进行分析并提取DNA。这一分析证实了我们对噬骨的怀疑，其中一个样本产生了足够的DNA来确认沉积的物种是大熊猫。虽然这种行为很罕见，占收集到的粪便样本的比例不到1%，但我们认为这种行为可能是野生大熊猫微量营养素的重要来源。

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Osteophagy in wild giant pandas

Documented over the course of several years of scat sampling, we report on two different incidents of wild giant panda osteophagy in Sichuan Province, China. To confirm that the dense, white, fecal pellets were bone and from pandas, we sent samples to a mineralogy lab for analysis and extracted DNA. This analysis both confirmed our suspicion of osteophagy, and one sample yielded enough DNA to confirm the depositing species as giant panda. Though rare and consisting of less than 1% of collected scat samples, we posit that this behavior may constitute an important source of micronutrients for wild giant pandas.

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acta ethologica 生物-动物学

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1.90

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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)