Male degus, Octodon degus, modify their dustbathing behavior in response to social familiarity of previous dustbathing marks
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Recollection of What-where-which Memory in Degus (octodon Degus)
To examine if a feature of episodic-like memory reported in rats is shared with other species, we investigated whether degus would form an integrated memory of object (what), place (where), and context (which). We used two E-shaped mazes with different contexts regarding the wall and the floor. Degus were entered into the middle arm and first explored the maze with two trial-unique objects plac...
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The urine-marking, defecation rates, and urine-sniffing behavior of male and female degus (Octodon degus) were recorded in an open field whose substrate was clean (Control Tests) or covered in conspecific urine (Experimental Tests). Animals were exposed to these conditions intermittently over a 3-mo period. Males urine-marked more than females. Both sexes exhibited increased levels of urine-mar...
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Octodon degus is a moderate-sized, precocious, but slowly maturing, hystricomorph rodent from central Chile. We have used this species to study a variety of questions about circadian rhythms in a diurnal mammal that readily adapts to most laboratory settings. In collaboration with others, we have found that a number of fundamental features of circadian function differ in this diurnal rodent com...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista chilena de historia natural
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0716-078X
DOI: 10.4067/s0716-078x2002000100015