Simonetti Javier A, Montenegro Gloria
Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile.
Oecologia. 1981 Jan;51(2):189-190. doi: 10.1007/BF00540599.
The food preferences of Octodon degus are examined in laboratory test. Results indicate that degus prefer new rather than mature leaves of Chilean matorral shrubs, and that degus do not discriminate between new leaves (equivalents of shrub seedlings) of different shrub species. The significance of degus preferences in relation to matorral composition is discussed.
在实验室测试中研究了八齿鼠的食物偏好。结果表明，八齿鼠更喜欢智利马托拉尔灌木的新叶而非成熟叶，并且八齿鼠不会区分不同灌木物种的新叶（相当于灌木幼苗）。讨论了八齿鼠的偏好与马托拉尔组成的关系的重要性。
