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- Title
Standing-Over in Captive Coywolves, Canis latrans x lycaon.
- Authors
Way, Jonathan G.
- Abstract
I documented standing-over behavior in a captive Coywoif (Canis latrans x lycaon, Eastern Coyote) pack from April 2002 to October 2003. Standing-over involves an individual positioning its inguinal area over a recumbent (i.e., lying) individual's head. While all five Coywolves in my study pack performed standing-over, the dominant female was responsible for the vast majority. Thus, standing-over appears to be primarily female-oriented, as has previously been reported for Wolves, Canis lupus, and may involve two functions: (1) to advertise the reproductive state of the animal doing the standing-over and (2) to assert dominance via a low-intensity agonistic interaction.
- Subjects
COYOTE behavior; CAPTIVE wild animal behavior; GROIN; WOLVES; AGONISTIC behavior in animals; HEAD
- Publication
Canadian Field-Naturalist, 2009, Vol 123, Issue 3, p262
- ISSN
0008-3550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22621/cfn.v123i3.975