"One of the most interesting patterns visible in my results was the type of fox territorial response depending on the protein content of the coyote urine. As seen in my conclusion, the foxes exhibit rubbing behavior more often when exposed to coyote urine with healthy protein content. They exhibit urinating behavior more often when exposed to coyote urine with proteinuria. By urinating more often on the urine with proteinuria than the urine with healthy protein content, the fox may be indicating that it is less likely to defend its territory from a healthy coyote than from an unhealthy one. By urinating, the fox is clearly claiming the territory for itself, and thereby risks facing a territorial challenge from the coyote. A fox would stand a much greater chance in a territorial brawl against an unhealthy coyote than against a healthy coyote, and thus may have felt more comfortable claiming its territory by urine.
The fox more often exhibited rubbing behavior on the coyote urine with healthy protein content. The fox might have been more comfortable rubbing atop healthy coyote urine because by rubbing it is emitting a scent through its glands rather than its urine. Scents emitted through glands are generally weaker than scents emitted through urination. For example, the scent emitted through the fox’s toe glands only lasts about 20 minutes, while the scent emitted through a canid’s urine may last up to two days. If the fox was uncomfortable about challenging a healthy coyote, it might defer to rubbing. The rubbing likely diminishes the scent of the coyote urine and adds a short-lasting fox marking. In this way, the fox would not necessarily be challenging the coyote but would still decrease the coyote’s scent marking, thereby claiming the territory without risking a fight with a coyote.
If these presumptions are correct, my research would suggest that foxes can distinguish a healthy coyote from an unhealthy one by the scent of the coyote’s urine, and that the foxes vary their territorial response depending on the health of the rival individual coyote."
Tendo em atenção alguns padrões comportamentais no meu local de trabalho vou fazer uma urina de 24 horas.
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