Lall Kavita Ranjeeta, Jones Kegan Romelle, Garcia Gary Wayne
The Open Tropical Forage-Animal Production Laboratory (OTF-APL), Department of Food Production (DFP), Faculty of Food and Agriculture (FFA), The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
Scientifica (Cairo). 2020 Mar 26;2020:9741762. doi: 10.1155/2020/9741762. eCollection 2020.
This paper highlights the natural habitat, housing, and restraint needs of 6 Neotropical animals that are found in Trinidad and Tobago with the potential for domestication: agouti (), lappe/paca (), capybara (), manicou/opossum (), collared peccary (), and red brocket deer (). The year of the earliest reference cited was 1950 and the most recent was 2018, with over 100 references being used. The average density, home range size, social group, and housing requirements were also examined as these factors would play a role in designing enclosures. A number of different physical and chemical restraint techniques were also discussed. Information from other species within the same genus was incorporated as some of the animals did not have sufficient literature.
本文着重介绍了在特立尼达和多巴哥发现的6种具有驯化潜力的新热带动物的自然栖息地、圈养环境及约束需求：刺豚鼠、拉佩猪/南美貘、水豚、负鼠、领西貒和红短角鹿。引用的最早参考文献年份为1950年，最近的为2018年，共使用了100多篇参考文献。还研究了平均密度、活动范围大小、社会群体和圈养要求，因为这些因素在设计围栏时会发挥作用。文中还讨论了一些不同的物理和化学约束技术。由于部分动物的文献资料不足，因此纳入了同一属内其他物种的信息。
