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A comprehensive study involving 12 camels in different age groups was conducted for a period of 15 days at a Govt. Livestock s Experiment Station in Thai desert of Punjab province to observe their various activity patterns round the clock. The activities f" mainly concentrated upon included daily grazing and rumination pattern, idling and resting pattern and frequency of defaecation ~ and urination. On overall basis the total time spent for various activities expressed as percent of 24 hours was found to be 37.40, / ~ 31.70,26.52 and 4.37 for grazing, rumination, idling and resting respectively. Time spent in rumination while sitting was about 45% higher than rumination in standing posture. Similarly, nocturnal rumination time was more than twice as much as observed during day time. Rumination time as observed was minimum in youngstock while resting time was the maximum. An ethogram depicting the daily activity patterns of camels has also been constructed. The frequency of defaecation and urination during day and night time was 5.7 and 3.0 and 5.7 and 4.3, respectively. The correlation between grazing/browsing time and the time for diurnal rumination was -0.047, while that of time between grazing/browsing and nocturnal rumination was 0.171. .. -'h 'f ,~ ..-....-J Key words: activity patterns, Camelus dromedarious . Thai area
Bakht Baidar Khan, Muhammad Lateef. (1996) A STUDyo.f SOME OF THE ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF CAMELUS DROMEDARIOUS MAINTAINED IN THAL AREA OF PUNJAB, PAKISTAN, , Volume 33, Issue 1,2,3,4.
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