Division of Conservation and Science, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, DC 20008, USA.
Behav Genet. 2011 Nov;41(6):803-9. doi: 10.1007/s10519-011-9459-0. Epub 2011 Apr 13.
Benson Ginsburg's early studies of canid socialization and wolf social and reproductive behavior were focused, in part, on the degree to which there was flexibility in social development and specifically whether there was a critical period during development after which wolf pups could not be socialized to humans. My focus was the degree to which differences in canid ecology and social structure were correlated with differences in the plasticity of social and reproductive behavior, including development. Canid species are unusual among the Mammalia in being primarily monogamous. Males may play an indirect or direct role in parental care, depending on a species degree of sociality. Canid species also differ in developmental parameters, and reproductive suppression is common in the group-living pack hunters. I review comparative studies of the social and reproductive behavior of three South American canids which vary in their degree of sociality and explore the degree to which the species are ecologically and socially flexible.
本森·金斯堡早期对犬科动物的社会化和狼的社会及生殖行为的研究，部分集中在社会发展的灵活性程度上，特别是在狼幼崽的发展之后，是否存在一个关键时期，使它们无法被人类社会化。我的关注点是犬科动物的生态和社会结构的差异与社会和生殖行为的可塑性，包括发育的差异之间的相关性。在哺乳类动物中，犬科动物是不寻常的，它们主要是一夫一妻制的。雄性可能会根据物种的社会性程度，间接或直接参与亲代养育。犬科动物在发育参数上也存在差异，群体生活的捕食者中常见生殖抑制现象。我回顾了三种南美的犬科动物的社会和生殖行为的比较研究，它们的社会性程度不同，并探讨了这些物种在生态和社会上的灵活性程度。
