The civet bears more strangers than its neighbors

The cat-like predator competes fiercely with the neighbors. But they are not so defensive with strangers.

The researchers recorded the image of the civet as they sniffed the enemy and roared with terrible alarms. Research shows that this animal protects the territory very fiercely in front of its neighbors but gives a complete stranger to his " home ".

The little ones left their scent with a small dance, they knocked their hind legs while peeing and dragging the " table " across the ground to mark the territory.

"Neighbors smells will often be found on territorial boundaries because they occupy each other's land," said study author Corsin Müller at the University of Zurich.

Meanwhile, strangers looking for a place to live will easily go to a new place and leave a trail.

Civet (Photo: LiveScience)

To compare the different civet's responses to neighbors and strangers, Müller and his colleague Marta Manser studied 200-member communities in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. In various tests, scientists sprinkle urine and feces in the center and edge of 6 different areas. Waste is taken from two groups of neighbors, strangers and landowners.

The beasts roared with fear when they caught the taste of their neighbors, twice as much when they encountered traces of strangers. The cry followed the response from the comrades and they dragged to the venue to scream. In addition, the animals also discovered more neighborhood waste samples than strangers.

Thus, it is clear that the mongoose sees neighbors as the biggest threat. Usually animals get along better with their neighbors because their relationship is known and less dangerous, while strangers will scramble for life and partners.

But in the case of the civet civet, neighbors are the most feared enemies, they invade the territory and banish the same gender to reduce the opponent in the love story. So the animals always react to the neighbors very aggressively.

Two young civets (Photo: LiveScience)

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