Frequency of Breeding and Recruitment in the Short-Beaked Echidna, Tachyglossus Aculeatus
Journal of mammalogy(2000)
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We documented the breeding frequency of 25 wild female short-beaked echidnas, Tachyglossus aculeatus multiculeatus, fate of young, and recruitment of subadults into a population over a 7-year period. Echidnas had 1 annual breeding period with courtship lasting 7-37 days. Females monitored were observed to mate only once per breeding season with I male. All females that mated produced a single fertile egg 23 days +/- 1 SE after mating. Frequency of reproduction differed among individuals and years. Number of young hatched each season varied between 1 and 9. A total of 22 hatchlings was produced by 17 different females between 1990 and 1996. Seven young died before weaning, 8 were known to survive to weaning, and the fates of the remaining 7 were unknown. Number of new subadults found in the study site was comparable with the number of young known to have been produced each year.
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breeding,population dynamics,recruitment,reproductive frequency,short-beaked echidna,Tachyglossus aculeatus
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