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- Title
Social status, activity and preputial glands of wild and domestic house mice.
- Authors
BARNETT, S. A.; DICKSON, RHONDDA G.; WARTH, KATHY G.
- Abstract
Scent marking by deposition of urine, and the preputial glands, of adult, male, wild house mice, Mus mmmlus L., were studied and compared with those of an outbred domestic strain. The preputial glands of dominant wild mice were always heavier than those of subordinates. No dominance relationships could be established among the domestic mice. For study of scent marking each mouse was observed singly in a residential maze. Dominant wild mice marked more than the subordinates. The domestic mice scent-marked much less even than the subordinate wild mice. Subordinate wild mice spent less time than the dominant wild mice outside the nest; but the number of excursions outside the nest made by the subordinates resembled that of the dominants. Hence social status influenced the pattern of movements in a structured environment.
- Publication
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1980, Vol 70, Issue 4, p421
- ISSN
0024-4082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1980.tb00857.x