Male and female agonistic and affiliative relationships in a social group of farm cats (Felis catus L.)

Natoli, Eugenia; Baggio, Alessandra; Pontier, Dominique

doi:10.1016/s0376-6357(00)00145-5

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“…Some scents may be important tools for adjusting the social interactions of domestic cats (Natoli 1985, Natoli et al 2001. They occasionally leave some faeces exposed when they are out hunting or on the periphery of their territories, but they usually bury them after defecation near their nesting sites or within their home range for hygienic reasons or avoidance of informing others about their physical conditions (Bradshaw and Cameron-Beaumont 2000;Case 2003;Liberg 1980).…”

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confidence: 99%

Do faecal odours enable domestic cats (Felis catus) to distinguish familiarity of the donors?

Nakabayashi

Yamaoka

Nakashima

2012

J Ethol

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We studied the ability of domestic cats to distinguish familiarity based on faecal odours. This was evaluated by comparing the sniffing duration of cats' own, familiar, and unfamiliar faeces. We found that (1) sniffing durations differed between unfamiliar faeces and the other types of faeces, (2) sniffing durations of faeces of the same unfamiliar individuals decreased over time, and (3) sniffing durations toward unfamiliar faeces increased after change of donors. These results indicate that domestic cats can distinguish the faecal odours based on familiarity. This ability could be adaptive for domestic cats to maintain their social relationships.

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confidence: 99%

Do faecal odours enable domestic cats (Felis catus) to distinguish familiarity of the donors?

Nakabayashi

Yamaoka

Nakashima

2012

J Ethol

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“…Number of dominated individuals also did not significantly differ between "cases" and "controls". In spite of previous studies having found correlations between urine spraying (among other scent mark behaviours) and dominance status (DE BOER, 1977;LIBERG, 1980;NATOLI, BAGGIO; in feral cats, this may not be the case for the owned neutered cats living under human mentoring. As suggested by Natoli and DeVito (1991) spraying may also act as displacement activity.…”

Section: Behavioural Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 69%

“…For the construction of these, some aspects of linear dominance hierarchy in the sense that if cat A dominates B, and B dominates C, then A also dominates C, is assumed (IZAR; SATO, 1997;FURNARI, 2011). Linear dominance hierarchies have been previously identified in studies on the social organization in groups of domestic feral cats (NATOLI;DEVITO, 2001;NATOLI, BAGGION;PONTIER, 2001) and so the use of it in this study, as an attempt to detect social patterns in "sprayer" cats, should not be seen as data over interpretation.…”

Section: Behavioural Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of medical, behavioural and physiological aspects of domestic cats (Felis catus) with inappropriate urination

Ramos¹

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Twelve years ago, when the perspective of a vet career was not fulfilling me and I was about to give up on everything, you opened me a window to a fascinating world: the secret life of animals. Since then, we haven´t stopped in our incredible journey exploring the mind of our canine friends. We researched together, we laughed together, and together we took "incredible" 8 years to publish our so expected Sofia´s paper! The first step had been completed, but there was a lot to come. Your enthusiasm, geniality and partnership have been strongly missed. Your great lessons will be kept fresh in my mind and heart whilst carrying on doing research with joy, dedication and creativity as you always taught. You are not here to celebrate this moment but whenever you are please receive my special thanks for everything. We certainly talked a lot about canine behaviour in the past decade-all that stuff surely warmed me up to go decipher cats too! samples processed there. Marie Odile, thanks for all the guidance during samples preparation and for the theoretical discussions. Thanks to Prof. Dulce Casarini, and her post-doctorate students Juliana e Daniela, from Federal São Paulo University, who kindly and promptly accepted analyzing the cats´ blood samples when problems at our faculty made the analysis impossible. Thanks to Angelica, Paty and Nina, my great friends from the Psychology Institute, for the help with the writing-up, the videos´analysis and the so called social "trees", respectively. We started at the same time and with the same goal, and together we are in all the crucial moments in our careers. Our meetings, full of chatting and lots of joy helped me all way throw the taught writing-up period. A special thanks to people from our laboratory, Clara, Cleide and Claudia, who since the beginning were very friendly and helpful. To Carlito who amazingly collected all blood samples with no stress (at least for the humans!). Thanks Marcela for all the papers and hints on urinary stuff! Thanks to Evelyse and Claudio, my special "virgo" friends. With our so similar way to work, a lesson I learnt: it is ok to be a perfectionist! Working together during the international seminars was great! Guys, reference list and photos turned to be really perfect! Thanks to Cida and Adelaide, who were so comprehensive and supportive whenever I dealt with paper work, deadlines, and examinations. Thanks to Prof. Carlos Eduardo Larsson,

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“…No entanto, ainda não se sabe se a liberação de odores quando ocorrem os contatos corporais dos animais ao esfregarem as regiões periorais e as bochechas nos objetos é um comportamento de marcação e, além disso, não foram encontradas relações entre as marcações por meio das secreções corporais e a posição social dos animais, tanto para machos quanto para fêmeas (NATOLI et al, 2001). Os comportamentos esfregar e lamber são utilizados nos outros gatos do grupo para que seja desenvolvido um odor comum do grupo, delineando, assim, um sinal tátil que expressa ligações sociais (JENSEN, 2002).…”

Section: Gatos -Comunicação Químicaunclassified

“…Existe uma hierarquia de dominância linear entre os gatos que pode ser verificada observando-se os comportamentos de submissão (NATOLI et al, 2001). Entretanto, em um estudo de táticas reprodutivas em gatos domésticos machos, discute-se que machos dominantes em um grupo podem tornar-se subordinados em outro grupo (YAMANE, 1998).…”

Section: Gatos -Comportamento Socialunclassified

Enriquecimento ambiental para gatos domésticos (Felis silvestris catus L.): A importância dos odores

Guandolini¹

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Male and female agonistic and affiliative relationships in a social group of farm cats (Felis catus L.)

Cited by 41 publications

References 21 publications

Do faecal odours enable domestic cats (Felis catus) to distinguish familiarity of the donors?

Do faecal odours enable domestic cats (Felis catus) to distinguish familiarity of the donors?

Evaluation of medical, behavioural and physiological aspects of domestic cats (Felis catus) with inappropriate urination

Enriquecimento ambiental para gatos domésticos (Felis silvestris catus L.): A importância dos odores

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