caa a22 4500 386380708 CHVBK 20180307112040.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266467400003837 doi S0266467400003837 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266467400003837 The breeding season and diet of Arvicanthis in northern Nigeria [Elektronische Daten] The breeding season and diet of the rat Arvicanthis was monitored from December 1983 to November 1985 in the semi-arid Sudan savanna at Kano, Nigeria, West Africa. Breeding began 1-2 months before the start of the rainy season and ceased at the beginning of the dry season. The diet of Arvicanthis was omnivorous, but with seasonal differences. Monocotyledons and dicotyledons predominated in the diet in the dry season, with seeds and insects increasing in the diet in the rainy season. The major differences between the ecology of Arvicanthis at Kano and on the East African savanna were that in East Africa the breeding season is longer and begins after the start of the rainy season. These and other dissimilarities between the biology of Arvicanthis in the two areas could be due to the effect of climatic differences on food supply and to the possible existence of different taxonomic groupings of Arvicanthis in the two regions. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Arvicanthis nationallicence breeding season nationallicence diet nationallicence feeding ecology nationallicence Muridae nationallicence Nigeria nationallicence Nile rat nationallicence reproductive ecology nationallicence Rodentia nationallicence savanna nationallicence Rabiu Safianu Department of Biological Sciences, Bayero University, PMB 3011, Kano, Nigeria Fisher Martin Department of Biological Sciences, Bayero University, PMB 3011, Kano, Nigeria Journal of Tropical Ecology Cambridge University Press 5/4(1989-11), 375-386 0266-4674 5:4<375 1989 5 TRO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400003837 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400003837 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rabiu Safianu Department of Biological Sciences, Bayero University, PMB 3011, Kano, Nigeria NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fisher Martin Department of Biological Sciences, Bayero University, PMB 3011, Kano, Nigeria NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Tropical Ecology Cambridge University Press 5/4(1989-11), 375-386 0266-4674 5:4<375 1989 5 TRO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge