New record of feeding behavior by the porcupine Coendou spinosus (F. Cuvier, 1823) in high-altitude grassland of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
-
Thamíris Christina Karlovic de Abreu
,
Clarissa Alves da Rosa
Abstract
Coendou spinosus is a rodent from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest with a cryptic behavior that hinders collection of information regarding its ecology. On October 2014, we observed an individual of C. spinosus above 2100 m of altitude, on the high-altitude grasslands of the Itatiaia National Park, feeding on the flowers of Camptosema scarlatinum. This is the highest altitude ever recorded and the first registration of vine species consumption and ground feeding behavior by the C. spinosus. Therefore, we recommend the undertaking of new studies to understand its ecological requirements and interspecific interactions.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) and Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA/FUNBIO) for financial resources. We thank the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio – license 36838), and the administration of the Itatiaia National Park for logistical support during this study. We also thank Mr. José Cristiano for supporting our expeditions.
References
Ávila-Pires, F.D. and E. Gouvêa. 1977. Mamíferos do Parque Nacional do Itatiaia. Boletim do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 291: 1–29.Suche in Google Scholar
Aximoff, I. 2011. O que perdemos com a passagem do fogo pelos campos de altitude do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Revista Biodiversidade Brasileira, Número Temático: Ecologia e Manejo do Fogo em Áreas Protegidas. 2: 180–200.Suche in Google Scholar
Aximoff, I. 2015. Confirmação da ocorrência do muriqui-do-norte (Primates, Atelidae) no Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, sudeste do Brasil. Oecologia Australis 18: 1–5.10.4257/oeco.2014.1801.01Suche in Google Scholar
Aximoff, I and S.M. Vaz. 2016. Bugio-ruivo (Primates, Atelidae) em campos de altitude e com anomalia na coloração no Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, sudeste do Brasil. Oecologia Australis 20: 122–127.10.4257/oeco.2016.2001.10Suche in Google Scholar
Barreto, C.G., J.B. Campos, D.M. Roberto, D.M. Roberto, N.T. Schwarzstein, G.S.G. Alves and W. Coelho. 2013. Análise da Região da Unidade de Conservação. In: Plano de Manejo Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Encartes 2 e 3. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Brasília. pp. 1–117.Suche in Google Scholar
Burkart, A. 1970. Las leguminosas Faseóleas argentinas de los géneros Mucuna, Dioclea y Camptosema. Darwiniana 16: 175–217.Suche in Google Scholar
Chiarello, A.G., M. Passamani and M. Zortéa. 1997. Field observations on the thin-spined porcupine, Chaetomys subspinosus (Rodentia: Echimyidae). Mammalia 61: 29–36.10.1515/mamm.1997.61.1.29Suche in Google Scholar
Cunha, A.A. 2010. Negative effects of tourism in a Brazilian Atlantic forest National Park. J. Nat. Conserv. 4: 291–295.10.1016/j.jnc.2010.01.001Suche in Google Scholar
Freitas, M.A., D.P.F. França and D. Veríssimo. 2013. First record of the Bicoloured-spined Porcupine Coendou bicolor (Tschudi, 1884) for Brazil. Check List 9: 94–96.10.15560/9.1.94Suche in Google Scholar
Geise, L., L.G. Pereira, D.E.P. Bossi and H.G. Bergallo. 2004. Pattern of elevational distribution and richness of non-volant mammals in Itatiaia National Park and its surroundings, in Southeastern Brazil. Braz. J. Biol. 64: 599–612.10.1590/S1519-69842004000400007Suche in Google Scholar
Giné, G.A.F., J.M.B. Duarte and D. Faria. 2010. Feeding ecology of a selective folivore, the thin-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus) in the Atlantic forest. J. Mammal. 91: 931–941.10.1644/09-MAMM-A-185.1Suche in Google Scholar
Giné, G.A.F., J.M.B. Duarte, T.C.S. Motta and D. Faria. 2012. Activity, movement and secretive behavior of threatened arboreal folivore, the thin-spined porcupine, in the Atlantic forest of southern Bahia, Brazil. J. Zool. 286: 131–139.10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00855.xSuche in Google Scholar
Giné, G.A.F., E.H. Barros, J.M.B. Duarte and D. Faria. 2015. Home range and multiscale habitat selection of threatened thin-spined porcupine in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. J. Mammal. 96: 1095–1105.10.1093/jmammal/gyv117Suche in Google Scholar
Köppen, W. 1936. Das geographisca System der Klimate. In: (W. Koppen and R. Geiger, eds.) Klimatologie. Gebr, Borntraeger, Germany. pp. 1–44.Suche in Google Scholar
Le Saout, S., M. Hoffmann, Y. Shi, A. Hughes, C. Bernard, T.M. Brooks, B. Bertzky, S.H.M. Butchart, S.N. Stuart, T. Badman and A.S.L. Rodrigues. 2013. Protected areas and effective biodiversity conservation. Science 342: 803–805.10.1126/science.1239268Suche in Google Scholar PubMed
Martinelli, G. 1996. Campos de Altitude. Index, Rio de Janeiro. pp. 160.Suche in Google Scholar
Oliveira, P.A., R.B. Souto-Lima and A.G. Chiarello. 2012. Home range, movements and diurnal roosts of the endangered thin-spined porcupine, Chaetomys subspinosus (Rodentia: Erethizontidae), in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Mammal. Biol. 77: 97–107.10.1016/j.mambio.2011.09.005Suche in Google Scholar
Passamani, M. 2010. Use of space and activity pattern of Sphiggurus villosus (F. Cuvier, 1823) from Brazil (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). Mammal. Biol. 75: 455–458.10.1016/j.mambio.2009.04.005Suche in Google Scholar
Raboy, B.E., L.G. Neves, S.L. Zeigler and L.C. Oliveira. 2013. Occurrences of the Golden-headed Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) above 500 meters in Southern Bahia, Brazil and implications for conservation planning. Primate Conserv. 1: 25–31.10.1896/052.026.0108Suche in Google Scholar
Rosa, C.A.R., K.K. Santos, G.M.M. Faria, F. Puertas and M. Passamani. 2015. Diet of Chrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger, 1815) in Southeastern Brazil. Bol. Soc. Bras. Mastozool. 72: 7–10.Suche in Google Scholar
Roze, U. 2012. Porcupines: the animal answer guide. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.10.1353/book.18820Suche in Google Scholar
Segadas-Vianna, F. and L. Dau. 1965. Ecology of Itatiaia range, southeastern Brazil: II Climates and altitudinal climatic zonation. Arquivos do Museu Nacional 53: 31–53.Suche in Google Scholar
Souto-Lima, R.B., P.A. Oliveira and A.G. Chiarello. 2010. Diet of the thin-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus), an Atlantic forest endemic threatened with extinction in southeastern Brazil. Mammal. Biol. 75: 538–546.10.1016/j.mambio.2009.09.002Suche in Google Scholar
Voss, R.S. 2011. Revisionary notes on Neotropical porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) 3. An annotated checklist of the species of Coendou Lacépède, 1799. American Museum Novitates 3720: 1–36.10.1206/3720.2Suche in Google Scholar
Voss, R.S. 2015. Superfamily Erethizontoidea Bonaparte, 1845. In: (J.L. Patton, U.F.J. Pardiñas and G. D’Elía, eds.) Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. pp. 786–805.Suche in Google Scholar
Woods, C.A. 1973. Erethizon dorsatum. Mamm. Species 29: 1–6.10.2307/3504036Suche in Google Scholar
Zortéa, M. and B.F.A. de Brito. 2010. Diurnal roosts and minimum home range defined by sleeping sites of a thin-spined porcupine Chaetomys subspinosus (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). Zoologia 27: 209–212.10.1590/S1984-46702010000200008Suche in Google Scholar
©2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Studies
- Effect of supplementary feeding on the social behaviour and distribution patterns of free-ranging southern white rhinoceros
- Activity patterns in sympatric carnivores in the Nahuelbuta Mountain Range, southern-central Chile
- Niche overlap and shared distributional patterns between two South American small carnivorans: Galictis cuja and Lyncodon patagonicus (Carnivora: Mustelidae)
- Rapid assessment of nonvolant mammals in seven sites in the northern State of Pará, Brazil: a forgotten part of the Guiana Region
- Unpaved roads are not adequate surrogates of true transects for sampling agoutis
- Taxonomic and geographic setting of Royle’s mountain vole Alticola roylei revisited
- Taxonomic reassessment of bats from Castelnau’s expedition to South America (1843–1847): Phyllostoma angusticeps Gervais, 1856 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)
- Short Notes
- White-lipped peccaries are recorded at Iguaçu National Park after 20 years
- New record of feeding behavior by the porcupine Coendou spinosus (F. Cuvier, 1823) in high-altitude grassland of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
- Toucan predation attempt on a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Long-term cave roosting in the spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum)
- On the rare species Amphinectomys savamis Malygin 1994 (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): new record and morphological considerations
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Studies
- Effect of supplementary feeding on the social behaviour and distribution patterns of free-ranging southern white rhinoceros
- Activity patterns in sympatric carnivores in the Nahuelbuta Mountain Range, southern-central Chile
- Niche overlap and shared distributional patterns between two South American small carnivorans: Galictis cuja and Lyncodon patagonicus (Carnivora: Mustelidae)
- Rapid assessment of nonvolant mammals in seven sites in the northern State of Pará, Brazil: a forgotten part of the Guiana Region
- Unpaved roads are not adequate surrogates of true transects for sampling agoutis
- Taxonomic and geographic setting of Royle’s mountain vole Alticola roylei revisited
- Taxonomic reassessment of bats from Castelnau’s expedition to South America (1843–1847): Phyllostoma angusticeps Gervais, 1856 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)
- Short Notes
- White-lipped peccaries are recorded at Iguaçu National Park after 20 years
- New record of feeding behavior by the porcupine Coendou spinosus (F. Cuvier, 1823) in high-altitude grassland of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
- Toucan predation attempt on a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Long-term cave roosting in the spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum)
- On the rare species Amphinectomys savamis Malygin 1994 (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae): new record and morphological considerations
