DOI: 10.36871/vet.zoo.bio.202102009
UDC 599.322 / 324-57.022
Authors
V. A. Ostapenko
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of Department
of Zoology, Ecology and Conservation named after
Professor A. G. Bannikov, Moscow State Academy
of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology –
MVA by K. I. Skryabin,
Moscow, Russian Federation
S. L. Nesterchuk
Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of Zoology,
Ecology and Nature Protection named after A. G. Bannikov,
Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine
and Biotechnology – MVA by K. I. Skryabin,
Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract
Based on observations of beavers in anthropogenic landscapes, the study of methods of their maintenance and feeding in the zoo assumptions are made about the broad ecological plasticity of the species. This is achieved by both morphophysiological adaptations and behavioral adaptations, which are associated with the processes of synanthropization and domestication. This is also associated with the processes of rapid restoration of the number of beavers and their range in places of former extermination. The river beaver is a promising object of zooculture, including breeding in artificial conditions.
Keywords
river beaver, rodents, habitat, synanthropic populations, domestication.
