斑嘴鹈鹕引入天鹅湖的试验研究

为了确保人工繁育的斑嘴鹈鹕成功引入上海动物园的天鹅湖,于2007年11月至2008年7月对8只2岁的斑嘴鹈鹕在放入天鹅湖前进行了塑料箱取食和天鹅湖水质适应性训练,并在放入天鹅湖后应用所有事件取样法对斑嘴鹈鹕的行为进行观察。取食水质适应性训练结果表明斑嘴鹈鹕生长良好。放入天鹅湖后斑嘴鹈鹕的行为时间分配表明,觅食行为在放入天鹅湖第1个月所占比例最高（44%）,第2、第3个月分别为30%、31%,同时其他主要行为时间分配趋于稳定,与一年后天鹅湖中该斑嘴鹈鹕种群的行为时间分配比较无明显差异（P〉0.05）,表明斑嘴鹈鹕对陌生环境适应期为2-3个月左右。在鹈鹕放入天鹅湖后的第11d和第23d各有1只死亡,引起斑嘴鹈鹕发病并导致死亡的原因是感染棘口吸虫,使用吡喹酮驱虫药进行治疗效果明显。     

基于红外相机技术的白鹇日活动节律研究

2014年5月至2016年4月,利用红外相机技术,系统调查和分析了浙江古田山国家级自然保护区内白鹇(Lophura nycthemera)的性比、集群方式和日活动节律。调查期间共获得244个有效位点的数据,累计58 890个工作日,收集到33 276份白鹇的照片和视频,有效探测5 687次,统计出雄性成体(含亚成体)3 946只次,雌性4 179只次,雌雄性比为1.06︰1。记录到群体大小从2至12只不等,群的组成方式多样。日活动节律分析的结果显示,白鹇的日活动时间段为5:00~18:00时,于6:00时、11:00时和16:00时有3个活动高峰,其间于10:00时和14:00时出现两个活动的低谷。雌雄个体的日活动节律基本一致,但雄性个体相比雌性清晨的活动高峰延长1 h(雌性6:00~8:00时,雄性6:00~9:00时),而午后的静息低谷推后1 h(雌性14:00时,雄性15:00时)。日活动节律密度函数分析结果显示,白鹇的日活动节律存在季节性变化。白鹇在春季和冬季存在早晚两个明显的活动高峰,而夏季和秋季在6:00~18:00时都较为活跃。同时,相比其他季节,白鹇在冬季早晨开始活动的时间推迟,傍晚结束活动的时间提前。不同季节的比较表明,白鹇在冬季和春、夏季的日活动节律重叠程度最低。白鹇日活动节律在低海拔带(200~700 m)和高海拔带(700~1 200 m)上存在差异,低海拔带个体在夏季和冬季的傍晚比高海拔带个体活跃。本研究结果为保护区内白鹇的保护管理提供了基础的科学依据。     

鹈鹕繁殖生态的观察

我园饲养鹈鹕属鸟类斑嘴鹈鹕(Pelecanus philipensis)及桃红鹈鹕(Pelecanus onocrotalus)二种,自1959年开始饲养,于1970年繁殖成功,由于人为干扰的影响,第二年开始繁殖中断,75年又继续繁殖2只,以后每年均有繁殖。鹈鹕繁殖虽已多年,但因繁殖巢区离岸较远,不易     

在人工条件下光周期对大麝鼩(Crocidura lasiura)活动节律的影响

大麝鼩是一种夜行性动物,其夜间(19:00—6:00)的活动频次占全天活动总频次的88.67％;夜间活动呈双峰型曲线,前峰在19:00—24:00,后峰在2:00—5:00。其夜行性指数为6.31,但各季节不同:春季5.94,夏季4.01,秋季6.56,冬季8.71,比其他鼩鼱科动物高。每日活动总额次雄性高于雌性,雄性的夜行性指数亦比雌性高。在人工倒置光周期的条件下,其最初几天的活动节律极度紊乱,至第7天后才稳定地回到自然光周期的日活动次数水平。     

小麂秋季利用人工盐场的节律

舔食盐分是野生动物的常见习性,但针对具体物种的研究较少。我们于2013年秋季(9~10月份)利用4台红外触发相机在唐家河国家级自然保护区对小麂(Muntiacus reevesi)利用人工盐场的时间格局进行了初步研究。共收集照片记录398条,其中可鉴别性别的记录288条。结果显示,小麂日均访问盐场(12.97±2.14)次,舔盐高峰出现在8:00~9:00时以及14:00~16:00时,低谷分别出现在2:00时、6:00时以及21:00~23:00时。独立样本t检验显示,小麂对距离公路较远的盐场访问次数显著高于近公路盐场[远离公路盐场(10.86±2.25)次,近公路盐场(2.10±0.58)次,t=3.77,P=0.001]。不论以全天统计抑或按照不同时间段(上午、下午和夜间)分别统计,雌雄两性对盐场的利用强度均无显著差异。我们仅发现在13:00~17:00时,雄性访问盐场的强度显著高于雌性(t=﹣2.47,P=0.048),且在13:00~14:00时和15:00~16:00时出现两次访问高峰。我们推测性别间的活动节律差异、体型差异以及雄性的干扰,均可能是雌性在下午时段降低盐场利用的原因。人为活动对离公路近的栖息地干扰较强,因而影响了小麂对栖息地的利用,使小麂回避靠近公路的盐场。因此,我们建议自然保护区在选择盐场位置时应考虑人为干扰因素。     

安徽鸟类新纪录

截至1983年为止,安徽正式报道的鸟类共有296种及20亚种,比1963年的纪录增加了100种及8亚种。本文又增记24种,共为320种及20亚种。其中,斑嘴鹈鹕、丹顶鹤、白鹤、白头鹤、白枕鹤为国家第一类保护动物,白额雁、秃鹫、大鸨为第二类保护动物。现将新纪录鸟类简单记述如下。所列各鸟的量度以毫米、衡度以克为单位。(1)斑嘴鹈鹕Petecanus philippensis philippensis Gmelin1♀,1963.10,肥西县巢湖。翅长600,旅鸟,亦见于本省山区水库。(2)白额雁Anser albifrons albifrons(Scopoli)1幼鸟,1981.12.27,东至县升金湖。体重2000,翅长390,冬候鸟,见于…     

华西蟾蜍年龄结构、体长和生长率的研究

本研究利用骨龄学方法研究了青藏高原东缘横断山脉区一个华西蟾蜍种群的年龄结构、体长、年生长率及性成熟年龄。采集的74个成体个体中(雄性47只,雌性27只),均能够在趾骨切片中观察到受抑制生长线。结果表明:两性的体长和年龄都成正相关关系(雌性:F1,26=4.87,r=0.40,P=0.04,雄性:F1,46=4.48,r=0.30,P=0.04)。雌性初始繁殖年龄为4龄,寿命至少为11龄;雄性分别为3龄和11龄。雌性和雄性的平均年龄存在显著差异(Z=2.27,P<0.01),雌性为(8.4±1.8)龄,雄性为(6.2±1.8)龄。雌性平均体长大于雄性(t=2.348,P<0.01),雌性为91.9 mm±7.2 mm,雄性为74.8 mm±5.5 mm。另外,雌性和雄性具有不同的生长模式,雌性生长率(r=2.48)大于雄性(r=2.32)。年龄和生长率对华西蟾蜍的性二型的解释有重要意义。     

夏季雌性藏羚昼间行为时间分配及活动节律

2003 至2005 年的6 ～ 9,采用目标动物观察法在可可西里观察夏季雌性藏羚的昼间行为。将雌性藏羚的行为分为觅食、警戒、卧息、移动和“其他”5 种类型,各类行为所占时间比例分别为59.1% 、7.3% 、19.4% 、13.0% 和1.3% 。觅食消耗的时间最多,是藏羚的常见行为,卧息、移动和警戒次之,而“其他”行为消耗时间最短。觅食、警戒、卧息和移动的累计时间在不同时段之间均存在显著(P<0.05) 或极显著(P< 0.01)差异。觅食行为存在3 个高峰,分别在10:00 ～11:00,13: 00 ～14: 00 和18: 00 ～19: 00;警戒的高峰期出现在早上08: 00 ～09 00,在15: 00 ～16:00 以及17: 00 ～18: 00 也分别出现小的高峰,但不明显;卧息行为表现为双峰形,分别为11: 00 ～12: 00 和16: 00 ～17: 00。移动行为也表现为双峰,出现在08: 00 ～09: 00 和15:00 ～16:00; “其他”行为在各时段间没有明显的变化趋势。     

中缅树鼩体温、代谢率和蒸发失水日节律

为研究中缅树鼩(Tupaia belangeri)体温、代谢率和蒸发失水的日节律变化,采用植入式体温计测定了中缅树鼩24 h的体温,以及24 h中4个时间段(05:00～07:00时、11:00～13:00时、17:00～19:00时和23:00～01:00时)热中性区(30℃)的静止代谢率(RMR)、非颤抖性产热(NST)和蒸发失水(EWL)。结果显示,中缅树鼩的体温具有日节律变化,最高值和最低值分别出现在11:00时和03:00时,各为(39.45±0.26)℃和(36.34±0.24)℃;静止代谢率、非颤抖性产热和蒸发失水在4个时间段都有显著差异,表现出显著的日节律变化,代谢率在23:00～01:00时最大,O2含量为(2.58±0.04)ml/(g.h),在11:00～13:00时最小,O2含量为(2.28±0.09)ml/(g.h);非颤抖性产热在05:00～07:00时最大,O2含量为(3.08±0.14)ml/(g.h),在11:00～13:00最小,O2含量为(2.69±0.63)ml/(g.h);蒸发失水在17:00～19:00时最大,失水量为(3.60±0.31)mg/(g.h)。结果表明,体温的日节律变化主要与环境温度的日节律变化和下午出窝取食活动性增强有关;当夜晚环境温度相对较低的时候,通过增强静止代谢率和非颤抖性产热来增加产热,而白天环境温度相对较高的时候,通过增强蒸发失水散热来调节体温。     

圈养大熊猫发情期间行为变化和活动节律研究

在发情期,对动物行为时间分配和活动节律的认识将有助于濒危动物繁育质量的提高。大熊猫为季节性单次发情动物,雄性发情期可持续30 d左右,而雌性大熊猫为几天至十几天,高峰期仅为1~3 d,且有与雄性不同步发情的现象。因此,进行发情期行为学方面的研究则显得尤为重要。采用瞬时扫描取样法和全事件记录法,于2013年3月1日—4月30日对成都大熊猫繁育研究基地的8只发情期大熊猫进行行为时间变化和活动节律研究,每只每周记录2 d数据。结果表明:休息行为是发情期最主要的行为方式(雄性约46%,雌性约53%),其次是摄食和运动行为,而探究、求适和发情行为则较少,发情行为主要出现在00∶00—03∶00、09∶00—11∶00和15∶00—17∶00等3个时段,可配对交配;发情期雌雄个体在休息、求适、运动和发情行为上的差异有高度统计学意义(P<0.01),在探究行为上的差异有统计学意义(P<0.05),而在摄食行为上的差异则无统计学意义;且发情、探究行为与运动行为呈显著正相关(P<0.01)。对发情期圈养大熊猫昼夜活动行为的研究将为大熊猫的人工繁育及其配种提供行为学方面的理论依据。     

蝇蛹金小蜂的交配行为及雄蜂交配次数对雌蜂繁殖的影响

多数昆虫能够进行多次交配,随寄生蜂雄蜂交配次数的增加,雄蜂体内精子减少,雌蜂获得的精子数量减少,产下更多的单倍体卵,发育为雄性后代;一些单寄生性的寄生蜂雌蜂一生仅能够交配1次。描述了蝇蛹金小蜂雌雄蜂的交配行为,探讨了雄蜂交配次数对雌蜂后代产量等的影响以及雌蜂的可交配次数。结果表明,交配过程包括求偶、交尾前期、交尾和交尾后期;雄蜂已交配的次数并不能够显著影响其配偶的寿命、产卵期和后代总数量,但显著影响到其配偶的雌、雄后代数量和性比。随雄蜂交配次数的增加,与之交配的雌蜂的后代雄性百分比显著增大,雌蜂在产卵期内更早地出现较多雄性后代,体内精子不足的现象更加明显。无论已交配的蝇蛹金小蜂雌蜂在产卵期中是否出现精子不足,均不能再次完成交配。     

The reproductive biology of the Rock Partridge Alectoris graeca saxatilis in the southern French Alps: first evidence of double-nesting behaviour

Capsule: Double-nesting occurs frequently in Rock Partridges Alectoris graeca living in the southern French Alps.

Aims: To investigate reproductive parameters of a Rock Partridge Alectoris graeca population.

Methods: The reproductive behaviour of 62 radio-tagged birds was monitored during the breeding seasons 2012–16, to record breeding phenology, clutch sizes, hatching success, nest survival and parental care.

Results: Double-nesting behaviour in the Rock Partridge was confirmed for the first time. Participation in incubation was similar for males and females (86% versus 70%). Clutch size was larger for nests incubated by males (11.0?±?1.6 eggs) than by females (9.5?±?1.2). Male nest survival rate (0.37) tended to be lower than female nest survival rate (0.62), although the difference was not significant. No significant difference was detected between male and female hatching success. Nest failures were caused by mammals taking the eggs (78%) or predation of the incubating parent (13%). Some circumstantial evidence suggests that occurrence of double-nesting behaviour could depend on previous winter and spring weather influencing the body condition of females. The reproductive biology of the Rock Partridge contrasts in some breeding traits with Red-legged Partridge and natural partridge hybrids, possibly due to climatic differences between habitats.

Conclusion: Confirmation of double-nesting in Rock Partridges indicates that climatic constraints inherent to its mountain environment do not act as an impediment to this behaviour. Variation in weather conditions between years could influence the annual occurrence of double-nesting.     

Handicapped females receive more feedings during incubation from their mates: support for the female nutrition hypothesis

The female nutrition hypothesis posits that provisioning intensity of incubating females by their mates may depend on female needs and ensure proper incubation and a corresponding high hatching and breeding success of breeding pairs. Here, we have handicapped female pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca at the beginning of incubation by clipping two primaries on each wing and filmed nests during incubation and later nestling provisioning to estimate male involvement in incubation feeding at the nest and in offspring care. Incubation feeding was more frequent at late nests. Correcting for this seasonal effect, incubation feeding was significantly affected by treatment and twice as high at experimental as at control nests. There was no effect of the experiment on female incubation attendance. The handicap did not result in any effect on hatching and breeding success, nestling growth and male or female provisioning and mass at the end of the nestling period. Males adjust their incubation feeding activity at the nest to female energetic requirements during incubation.     

秦岭大熊猫精液的细管冷冻保存

2008年3月1日至4月27日和2009年3月3日至5月1日,在陕西省珍稀野生动物抢救饲养研究中心对处于繁殖期内的4只雄性秦岭大熊猫(Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis)精液进行了细管冻精实验。比较组成不同的4种稀释液:葡萄糖-果糖-柠檬酸三钠-卵黄-甘油-双抗(稀释液1)、葡萄糖-蔗糖-柠檬酸三钠-卵黄-甘油-双抗(稀释液2)、葡萄糖-柠檬酸三钠-卵黄-甘油-双抗(稀释液3)和美国进口的TEST(加入3.5%甘油),以及直接降温平衡法(方法 1)与逐级降温平衡法(方法 2)2种冷冻保存操作方法,对秦岭大熊猫精液进行细管冷冻保存后精子活力和顶体完整率的影响。结果表明:稀释液1的精子活力为46.25%±11.67%,顶体完整率为80.75%±7.89%,TEST的精子活力为48.75%±8.54%,顶体完整率为84.50%±7.59%,两者的精子活力和顶体完整率均无明显差异(P0.05),但是都明显高于稀释液2(P﹤0.01)和稀释液3(P﹤0.01);采用方法 1冷冻保存秦岭大熊猫精液,解冻后精子的活力和顶体完整率分别为45.67%±10.54%和81.37%±8.42%,都显著高于方法 2(P﹤0.01);方法 1解冻后畸形率为23.50%±3.51%,明显低于方法 2(P﹤0.01)。经比较确定,方法 1(用稀释液1)是一种较好的细管冷冻保存秦岭大熊猫精液的方法。     

夏季可可西里雌性藏原羚行为时间分配及活动节律

2005和2010两年的6—8月,在可可西里采用目标动物观察法记录藏原羚的行为时间分配和活动节律。所有行为被划分为觅食、警戒、躺卧、移动和其它5种类型。研究结果表明,觅食和躺卧是藏原羚的主要行为类型,分别占总行为时间的(42.02±2.22)%和(31.21±2.71)%,警戒、移动和其它3种行为类型时间比例依次减少。藏原羚的集群大小为1—10和12只,随着集群规模的增加,藏原羚的觅食时间增加,警戒时间减少,但其余3种行为类型与集群规模无显著相关性。与无羔藏原羚个体相比,有羔藏原羚的移动行为所占比例较高,而躺卧比例较低,觅食、警戒和其它3种行为类型差异不显著。一天中,藏原羚的觅食行为存在3个高峰,分别为8:00—8:59,10:00—12:59和16:00—19:59;躺卧行为的变化趋势与觅食行为相反;警戒行为仅有1个高峰,为14:00—14:59。5种行为类型在各时段间均存在显著差异。     

Plural Breeding in the Splendid Fairy-wren,Malurus splendens (Aves: Maluridae), a Cooperative Breeder

Groups of the cooperatively breeding splendid fairy-wren Malurus splendens may include more than one female. Previously this species has been described as singular breeding (only one female breeds). This paper describes the occurrence of plural breeding (PB) groups in 10% of group years, in which two females had separate nests. In all cases, the secondary female (Y) was related to the primary breeding female (X) and was generally a 2-year old female which had helped in the group during the previous breeding season. Plural breeding was correlated with an increase in population density and in the number of female helpers; PB groups were larger than singular-breeding groups. In most cases, the X female was occupied with her own nest or offspring when the Y female began to nest, and there was no aggression between them. Which birds helped the Y female to feed at her nest depended on the time between the hatching of the two nests. If the interval was small, some group members helped at each nest; with longer intervals, the group members began to feed at the earlier nest, and the other female was left to raise her brood alone. Female helpers were very active in feeding at single nestings, and the cost to an X female of a Y female breeding was mainly a loss of this assistance. The success of individual X nests was not affected. Effects on productivity were slight, but fewer X females in PB groups raised second broods than did experienced singular breeding females. Y females were less productive than X females, but no less productive than singular breeding novice females without helpers. It is not known whether Y females copulated with primary or secondary males within their group, or with males from outside the group. Certainly, they did not form an observable pairing with any male in the group. Plural breeding occurred in a minority of group years in response to extrinsic conditions and the current demographic situation, and shows the extreme plasticity of the mating system in M. splendens.     

四川梅花鹿繁殖行为

2006年4—12月和2007年3—11月在四川省铁布自然保护区观察和统计了野生梅花鹿的繁殖行为,包括发情交配、产仔、发情吼叫、爬跨及其昼夜节律行为等。结果表明,四川梅花鹿为季节性发情动物,发情交配行为发生在9月上旬至12月中旬,集中在10—11月(占(86.99±3.24)%)。四川梅花鹿发情交配日期最早见于9月8日,最晚为12月16日,跨度约90—100 d(±6 d,n=90)。雌鹿交配日期与其繁殖经历具有低度正相关性(Kendall's tau-b和Spearman's rho,0.3r0.5,P0.05),成体雌鹿交配日期稍微早于初次配种雌鹿。雄鹿发情吼叫和爬跨行为具有明显的昼夜节律性,各有2个高峰期(05:00—08:00和18:00—21:00),夜间有小节律的发情吼叫和爬跨时期。U-test检验表明发情吼叫频次和爬跨频率在昼夜间有极显著差异(P0.01)。雄鹿吼叫行为与其交配行为具有高度正相关性(Kendall's tau-b和Spearman's rho,0.8r1.0,P0.05),主雄、次雄和群外单身雄鹿的昼夜吼叫次数有极显著差异(P0.01)。雌鹿产仔期从4月下旬开始到7月下旬结束,集中在5—6月(占(91.51±4.96)%),产仔日期最早见于4月29日,最晚为7月28日,跨度约80—90 d(±5 d,n=130)。梅花鹿产仔日期与其分娩经历具有低度正相关性(Kendall's tau-b和Spearman's rho,0.3r0.5,P0.05),成体雌鹿产仔日期早于初次繁殖雌鹿。雌鹿每胎产1—2个幼仔,单双胎率分别为98.86%(±6.96%,n=129)和1.01%(±0.07%,n=1)。妊娠期和哺乳期梅花鹿采食行为分配占较大比率,其次是卧息和移动,哺乳期采食行为分配低于妊娠期,这与妊娠期正逢冬季,食物资源相对匮乏有关,而哺乳期恰逢夏季,植物生长旺盛,食物资源相对丰富。     

Renesting and brooding in the Caribbean flamingo

Caribbean flamingos were observed during the 1981 breeding season at the Audubon Zoological Garden in New Orleans, Louisiana. Two floods occurred during the breeding season, causing the flock to nest three times. At each new nesting there was a significant decline in the number of birds laying eggs. One pair brooded a chick during the final nesting. Immediately after hatching, the female usually brooded while the male defended the nest area; however, over the three-day period that the chick remained on the nest, the male began to spend more time brooding and less time defending the nest area. Thus there appeared to be some division of labor in this flamingo pair.     

Male mate choice, male availability and egg production as limitations on polyandry in the red-necked phalarope

In sequentially polyandrous birds, a female's second mate faces a substantial risk of cuckoldry due to rapid mate switching and stored sperm. Secondary males are potentially available to females because males arrive asynchronously and/or are recycled into the breeding pool following nest predation. In a study of red-necked phalaropes, Phalaropus lobatus, a sex-role reversed shorebird, we tested the hypotheses that the proportion of females that become polyandrous is proximately limited by: (1) the ability of females to produce eggs, (2) the availability of males as mates and (3) male mate choice. In a colour-banded population in which rates of nest loss were manipulated by researchers, females that produced second clutches required similar lengths of time to complete clutches as those contemporaneously producing first clutches, and increased their egg size relative to their first clutch, making egg limitation unlikely. There was no correlation between an annual measure of males' availability as potential mates following nest losses and the proportion of females that were polyandrous. The majority of males that lost clutches (66%) re-paired with their original female significantly more often than expected by random mate choice (P<0.0001). Although 76% of polyandrous nestings involved renesting males, only 6% (N=46) of renesting males changed mates if their original female was still available. Renesting males that changed mates did not select for or against females that had already produced clutches (NS). Our results suggest that the level of polyandry in this species is not constrained by the females' abilities to produce more eggs or by the number of males recycling back into the breeding pool. Instead, the proportion of females that become polyandrous is limited by males choosing to renest with their original females, thereby decreasing their probability of caring for eggs potentially fertilized by a female's previous mate.     

延迟交配对橘小实蝇繁殖适度的影响

橘小实蝇Bactrocera dorsalis Hendel是一种世界性的入侵害虫,严重为害多种经济果蔬。本文通过响应面分析方法,研究了延迟交配对橘小实蝇交配率、产卵量、孵化率和寿命的影响。结果表明,交配率随雌虫交配日龄的延迟先增后减,雌、雄成虫均为35日龄处理组中的交配率最高,为81.00%±2.00%;而雄虫交配日龄的延迟则对其卵孵化率有明显的负面作用,在56日龄雄虫与35日龄雌虫处理组中,其卵孵化率最低,仅为27.56%±4.55%。雌成虫产卵量和寿命受到雌、雄虫双方交配日龄的的影响,产卵量（y）与雄虫日龄（x1）和雌虫日龄（x2）的回归方程为y=514.36+3.08x1-11.05x2,雌成虫寿命（y）与雄虫日龄（x1）和雌虫日龄（x2）的回归方程为y=35.85+0.23x1+0.40x2。研究结果为田间使用性信息素迷向法防治橘小实蝇提供了理论依据。