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La cria, engreix i venda de conills per a consum propi o per abastament local, als mercats setmanals de la comarca, ha estat una activitat rural tradicional a Catalunya. Es presenta un treball sobre la identificació botànica de les herbes utilitzades en l'alimentació tradicional dels conills de pagès, a la comarca de la Selva. Se presenta un trabajo sobre la identificación botánica de las hierbas utilizadas en la alimentación tradicional de los conejos de corral, en la comarca de la Selva

En la región Mediterránea la dispersión endozoócora de semillas es una alternativa potencial para recuperar pastizales y matorrales degradados o abandonados. Los objetivos de este estudio fueron determinar si el paso a través del sistema digestivo de cabras afectó la recuperación de semillas, la germinación y emergencia de plántulas de tres leguminosas herbáceas comunes del área Mediterránea (Ornithopus compressus L., Medicago polymorpha L. y Melilotus officinalis L. Pall.). El porcentaje total de recuperación de semillas osciló entre 0,31% y 6,80%. En todas las especies las semillas recuperadas tras la ingestión presentaron una germinación significativa menor que las semillas control, con porcentajes de germinación de 26,7% a 50,0%. La emergencia de plántulas fue menor en las heces intactas que en las disgregadas. No se encontró emergencia de plántulas de las semillas de O. compressus para ninguno de los tratamientos ni tiempos de muestreo. Aunque los porcentajes de recuperación de semillas, la germinación y emergencia de plántulas fueron bajos en términos absolutos, se concluye que las semillas de M. polymorpha y M. officinalis podrían establecerse desde el estiércol y representar una alternativa potencial para recuperar áreas de pastoreo degradadas o abandonadas.

The aim of this study was to compare the trophic behaviour and the social structure of Majorcan wild goats and feral goats present in the island of Majorca. The former are descendants of an ancestral goat ecotype introduced in the island in the late Neolithic, whereas feral goats come from domestic forms introduced recently from the Iberian Peninsula. The study was conducted in four localities of the Serra de Tramuntana, a mountain range located in the northwest of the island of Majorca. Behavioural data were collected in three seasons, summer, winter and spring of 2011-2013, and when goat activity is at its peak, i.e., 3. h after dawn and before dusk. The following variables were recorded: group composition (males, females, and kids) and activity (feeding, walking, resting, and watching). The proportion of time spent on each activity and their frequency were obtained from focal samples. Multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVA) were used to simultaneously analyse the activity variables. A total of 155 observations of 85 herds were registered throughout the study. A similar behaviour pattern has been observed in this study for the two goat ecotypes, feral and wild, apart from some seasonal variations in feeding and resting activities. In summer, feral goats showed higher feeding efforts (duration and frequency) than wild goats; this might be related to a lower efficiency obtaining feeding resources by the former, whereas wild goats, that have inhabited the island for millennia, coexisting with vegetation in periods of lower forage abundance and quality, would be more efficient herbivores during restrictive periods. Average herd size for both ecotypes is smaller than that recorded for domestic goat herds, suggesting a relatively low browsing damage compared to the latter. Also, feral goats apparently have a higher gregarious behaviour than wild ones, which might relate to their domestic origin. Currently, the management of goats on the island is based on maintaining the wild ecotype and eradicate the feral one, whose impact on vegetation is supposedly worse. However, our results show a similar trophic behaviour by both ecotypes, so that their impact on vegetation should also be expected to be similar, indicating that this argument has not enough scientific basis., This study was made possible thanks to the funding obtained from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (projects CGL2010-22116 (sub-BOS), and CGL2010-17889) and the BBVA Foundation (BIOCON08-059). Leidy Rivera was funded by CONACyT, Mexican Institute.