| Project/Area Number |
25440247
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
|
| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Ecology/Environment
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
Tamura Noriko 国立研究開発法人 森林総合研究所, 多摩森林科学園, チーム長 (20222127)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
|
| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
|
| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
|
|---|
| Keywords | 毛色多型 / 色覚認知 / Callosciurus finlaysonii / 熱帯林 / 同種認識 / Ｃａｌｌｏｓｃｉｕｒｕｓ ｆｉｎｌａｙｓｏｎｉｉ / 体毛色 / 色覚 / リス / 種認識 / フィンレイソンリス |
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Finlayson’s squirrel, Callosciurus finlaysonii, is distributed in lowland forests throughout South-East Asia. Its pelage colour is conspicuous red, black and white. To understand the ecological meaning of the pelage coloration, we measured and compared across different seasons, ages, body weight and sexes. The color characteristics of the pelages did not differ between the sexes, ages, body weight and seasons, which indicate that the unusual pelage colour cannot be explained as social signals. Colour vision tests revealed that C. finlaysonii can discriminate the colour of conspecific white, black, and red pelages from the colour of sympatric other species, which indicate that the pelage colour could be useful clues for species recognition.
|
