1. Adaptabilidad y tolerancia de Cidguiros (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris: hidrochaeridae) al confinamiento
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Jaime Ramirez Perilla, Cecilia Romero, Sonia Bohórquez, and Nohora Martínez
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H. hydrochaeris ,capybara ,chigüiro ,comportamiento ,cautiverio ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
Time of adaptation to human presence and interindividual distances of subadults and 19 juvenile capybaras (H. hydrochaeris), separately mantained in captivity in 5 x 9 m. pens, were studied. Dependence and tolerance to human presence was maximun within 8 weeks for the juveniles and within less than 2 weeks for the subadults. The agressive behaviour is more frequent in adyacent and semicircular feeders than in those lineally separated. The 49.77% of the times (N =424), juveniles individuals carried out their activities in less than 0.5 m., whereas only 34.83 % of the subadults did it at the same distance. It is possible to find any subadult individual 77.5% of the time at a minimun interindividual distance ranging between 0.0 and 1.5 m., whereas for the juveniles the possibility is 84% of the time. From the study is easily established that the capybaras are readily adaptable to captivity and tolerate rather high densities.
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- 1996