Mountain gazelles' (Gazella gazella) males use mutual dung middens in favorable locations

Oved Gur; Rachel Ben-Shlomo; Yagil Osem; Uri Shanas

doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12869

Mountain gazelles' (Gazella gazella) males use mutual dung middens in favorable locations

Integr Zool. 2024 Jul 19. doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12869. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Oved Gur¹, Rachel Ben-Shlomo^{1

2}, Yagil Osem³, Uri Shanas^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
² Department of Biology and Environment, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa-Oranim, Tivon, Israel.
³ Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel.

PMID: 39030926
DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12869

Abstract

Males of the mountain gazelle deposit dung middens (different colors and shapes represent middens of different haplotypes) in preferable forest plots and countermark the same middens (two color circles) at the boundaries of their territories.

Publication types

Letter

Grants and funding

KKL, Israel