Yüksel COŞKUN, Alaettin KAYA

Reproduction, postnatal development, and social behavior of Ellobius lutescens Tomas, 1897 (Mammalia: Rodentia) in captivity

The reproduction, postnatal development, and social behaviors of the Transcaucasian mole vole (Ellobius lutescens) werestudied in the laboratory in 2012/2013. Te collected voles were kept in glass cages in captivity conditions and observations were madethroughout the year. The litter size, gestation period, neonate weight, eye-opening, weaning, and earliest sexual maturity age wereobserved. Pups were born with nipple-seizing incisors . Tese incisors were diferent from those of adults. Te molars and normalincisor eruption appeared afer 19 21 days. Females have three pairs of nipples. The adult females were bigger in size than the males, yetthe males consumed more food than the females. Isolated individuals consumed more food than did the paired animals.

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