Titlebook: Animal Homing; F. Papi Book 1992 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992 amphibians.arthropods.invertebrates.mammals

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Robert J. Beyers,Howard T. Odum . (see Chapter 1), i.e. ‘the area over which an animal normally travels in pursuit of its routine activities’ (Jewell, 1966) during a stated period of time (e.g. a few weeks, a season, etc.). The current trend is to describe home range ize and shape in a probabilistic sense (Worton, 1987). For inst

Extort

General aspects,behaviour is complex, however, usually move towards specific sites where they feed, spawn, mate or find shelter. Such sites can be personal or shared with conspecifics, but their users can tell each one from all others, even if they are similar. To perform this kind of spatial activity, animals have

做事过头

Interferons

Arthropods,r they had been displaced inadvertently to unknown territory, but the first to marvel at the amazing homing abilities of insects was Jean Henri Fabre (1879, 1882). He released some megachilid bees and sphecid wasps up to 4 km away from home and was surprised to find that many of them returned to the

Corroborate

Fishes,cularly those larger than about 60 cm (Roff, 1988). Fishes may migrate from marine feeding areas to spawn in freshwater (anadromy; e.g. shad, salmon, striped bass, lamprey). Others, such as eels, rear in freshwater but return to the sea to spawn and are termed catadromous. There are also species, re

Enervate

Amphibians,ity for directed movements over large distances. Reports of common toads (.) returning to former breeding ponds which had been inhabited years before (Heusser, 1956) illustrate the extraordinary site fidelity of some species. The phenomenon of homing in Amphibia has been well documented since the la

匍匐前进

Reptiles,ity is characteristic of all the main orders of this class. Chelonia, for instance, include turtles spending most of their life in open seas or coastal areas, others more or less linked to inland waters, and typical terrestrial tortoises. Many species of the two suborders of Squamata — Lacertilia (l

intimate

PALSY

Mammals, . (see Chapter 1), i.e. ‘the area over which an animal normally travels in pursuit of its routine activities’ (Jewell, 1966) during a stated period of time (e.g. a few weeks, a season, etc.). The current trend is to describe home range ize and shape in a probabilistic sense (Worton, 1987). For inst

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