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Aspects of social behaviour and reproduction in the wild rabbit - Implications for rabbit breeding?

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dc.contributor.author Rödel, Heiko Georg es_ES
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-19T07:10:15Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-19T07:10:15Z
dc.date.issued 2022-03-31
dc.identifier.issn 1257-5011
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10251/182701
dc.description.abstract [EN] Further knowledge on aspects of social behaviour in the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), including the link to reproduction, could possibly point to new ways to improve housing and breeding conditions in rabbit farming. In this review, I present some results of our long-term study on a 2-hectare field enclosure population of wild rabbits (University of Bayreuth, Germany), exploring group-level and individual-level differences in agonistic behaviour of females and their potential associations with reproductive traits, including offspring survival. The frequency of agonistic behaviour in which females were involved, increased with increasing group size, and was lower in groups with a more heterogeneous age structure. At the individual level, reproducing females were involved in more agonistic interactions when groupmates gave birth and thus built their burrows and nests at around the same time, and higher-ranking mothers were particularly aggressive when other females approached close to their nursery burrows. Associations between females social environment and reproduction were evident, as the numbers of litters and offspring per female were lower at higher female densities, high-ranking females produced more offspring and had a lower offspring mortality than low-ranking ones, and cases of infanticide were lower in more stable groups, which we quantified by the more heterogeneous age structure of the females rank hierarchy in such groups. Furthermore, perinatal offspring mortality was increased in females with a delayed burrow and nest building activity, i.e. does that dug their nursery burrow and built their nest only during the last 24 h pre-partum, possibly driven by the more unfavourable social environment experienced by such females. Most importantly, our studies highlight the importance of the presence of litter siblings in improving an individual s social environment, which resulted in an earlier onset of breeding in such females. Higher levels of positive social interactions with litter siblings were also associated with lower stress hormone (corticosterone) levels and with a better health status in terms of lower loads with an intestinal nematode. These findings on ameliorating effects of litter sibling presence in growing rabbits as well as in reproducing females may be a promising starting point worth further exploration in the context of group housing of domestic rabbits. es_ES
dc.description.sponsorship The study was financially supported by grants from the German Research Foundation DFG (Ro 2431/2-1, 3-1). es_ES
dc.language Inglés es_ES
dc.publisher Universitat Politècnica de València es_ES
dc.relation.ispartof World Rabbit Science es_ES
dc.rights Reconocimiento - No comercial - Compartir igual (by-nc-sa) es_ES
dc.subject Rabbits es_ES
dc.subject Affiliative behavior es_ES
dc.subject Agonistic behavior es_ES
dc.subject Density effects es_ES
dc.subject Group stability es_ES
dc.subject Infanticide es_ES
dc.subject Sibling effects es_ES
dc.title Aspects of social behaviour and reproduction in the wild rabbit - Implications for rabbit breeding? es_ES
dc.type Artículo es_ES
dc.identifier.doi 10.4995/wrs.2022.15954
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/DFG//2431%2F2-1 es_ES
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/DFG//2431%2F3-1 es_ES
dc.rights.accessRights Abierto es_ES
dc.description.bibliographicCitation Rödel, HG. (2022). Aspects of social behaviour and reproduction in the wild rabbit - Implications for rabbit breeding?. World Rabbit Science. 30(1):47-59. https://doi.org/10.4995/wrs.2022.15954 es_ES
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dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion es_ES
dc.description.volume 30 es_ES
dc.description.issue 1 es_ES
dc.identifier.eissn 1989-8886
dc.relation.pasarela OJS\15954 es_ES
dc.contributor.funder Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft es_ES
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