Chinese red panda (Ailurus styani) has stable individual-level laterality of anogenital rubbing

Autor:	Liu Qunxiu, Endi Zhang, Ningning Song, Yi Lin, Min Chen
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Behavioral Neuroscience Laterality Animal Science and Zoology Anatomy Biology Individual level Rubbing
Zdroj:	Behaviour. 159:393-402
ISSN:	1568-539X 0005-7959
DOI:	10.1163/1568539x-bja10130
Popis:	Behavioural laterality was widely discovered in both vertebrates and invertebrates. However, reports of behavioural laterality in scent-marking are scarce and focused on limb preference during scent-marking. In this study, we observed another scent-marking behaviour, anogenital rubbing, which involved whole-body movement, in zoo-housed Chinese red pandas. We recorded the moving direction of the buttocks when initiating anogenital rubbing. Our results showed that three of our subjects were explicitly left-biased when initiating anogenital rubbing and the other one showed more left initiation although there was no statistical significance. Besides, the laterality was consistent across the whole observational period. This is the first report of laterality in anogenital rubbing, perhaps indicating hemispheric specialization for chemical communication in the Chinese red panda.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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