- Title
- Striping patterns may not influence social interactions and mating in zebra: Observations from melanic zebra in South Africa
- Creator
- Caputo, Michelle, Rubenstein, Daniel I, Froneman, P William, Bouveroux, Thibaut N
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/479363
- Identifier
- vital:78294
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12463
- Description
- Colouration serves many functions in animals including crypsis, aposematism, mimicry, intraspecific communication, communication between species and thermoregulation (Caro, Caswell Stoddard, and Stuard-Fox, 2017). On occasions, abnormalities or discontinuous variations in colouration and/or patterning of an individual within a population can occur, leading to albinism (Osinga, ‘t Hart, and Vader, 2010), leucism (Reisinger, Mufanadzo, de Bruyn, and Bester, 2009) or melanism (Eizirik et al., 2003; Majerus, 1998). Melanism, a rare condition occurring when a group of pigments (pheomelanin or eumelanin) is overproduced, has been reported in a variety of mammal species.
- Format
- 4 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Journal of Ecology, Caputo, M., Rubenstein, D.I., Froneman, P.W. and Bouveroux, T., 2018. Striping patterns may not influence social interactions and mating in zebra: Observations from melanic zebra in South Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 56: 428–431. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12463, African Journal of Ecology volume 56 number 1 428 431 2018 1365-2028
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