title: On social organization and behaviour of the gerenuk Litocranius walleri (Brooke 1878).
abstract: The social organization of the gerenuk in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya, is characterized by single adult male on territories encompassing their entire home ranges, small female-groups of variable composition, often associated with territorial male, and small groups of subadult male. There appear to be no non-territorial adult male ("bachelors"). Subadult male wander about considerably, often alone, before they succeed in taking over a territory. Territorial male perform linked urination/defecation and mark dry twigs with the antorbital gland secretion. Agonistic and courtship behaviour resemble those of other gazelles. Mother-young relations conform to the "hider type" among bovids.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001188:Artiodactyla / Q000502:physiology*; D003380:Courtship; D005260:Female; D006702:Homing Behavior; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012919:Social Behavior; D012930:Social Dominance; D013731:Territoriality