REGISTRATION OF FOOTPRINTS OF COATIS (Nasua nasua) FOR SURVEYING AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION USING DIFFERENT SUBSTRATA

Authors

  • João Paulo Araújo Fernandes de Queiroz
  • Francisco David Nascimento Sousa
  • Regiana Araújo Lage
  • Edney Giovanni Dias Agra
  • Marisa de Alencar Izael
  • Carlos Iberê Alves Freitas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21708/avb.2008.2.1.461

Abstract

The Nasua nasua is a procyonide that is distributed from Venezuela to the north of Argentina, being found in all the Brazilian ecosystems. The identification of animals through footprints is used commonly for several species. In that way, the present study had as objective to register and to describe the coatis (Nasua nasua) footprints using different substrata: humid sand, clay and alginate, the last one being not so far described for this purpose. The registration of footprints was shown to be a method cheap, fast and of easy observation. Humid sand, clay and alginate showed to be excellent substrata with advantages and disadvantages. In that way, it can be concluded that the substrata are useful to the registration of coatis footprints. Keywords: footprints; substrata; Nasua nasua.

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Published

2008-04-18

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Original Articles / Artigos de Pesquisa

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