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Hibernation Records on the Incisor Surface in the Turkish Hamster (Mesocricetus brandti) (Rodentia, Cricetidae)
Author(s) -
Е. А. Зайцева,
М. М. Чунков,
К. З. Омаров
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
povolžskij èkologičeskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-8963
pISSN - 1684-7318
DOI - 10.35885/1684-7318-2020-1-44-51
Subject(s) - cricetidae , hamster , torpor , hibernation (computing) , mesocricetus , biology , incisor , anatomy , zoology , hypothermia , ecology , physiology , endocrinology , thermoregulation , state (computer science) , algorithm , computer science
The teeth of an adult female of the Turkish hamster (Mesocricetus brandti) after hibernation in semi-natural conditions were examined to reveal a relationship between the hibernation pattern on the incisor surface and the data of a temperature logger. The female spent the winter in a burrow prepared by herself inside a wintering cage from October 2018 till May 2019. A temperature logger was implanted to the animal intraperitoneally to record body temperature at 20-min intervals. Regular bouts of hypothermia started in mid-October. The longevity of each hypothermia bout increased whereas the minimum body temperature decreased and reached its lowest value in March. Later, the process proceeded backwards until the end of the heterothermia period. In the apical region of the incisor, daily increments were wide and well-distinguished which indicates that they had formed before the onset of the heterothermal period. In the basal region, closer to the growth zone, the increments were narrow and distinct, and their number corresponded in general to the number of normothermia episodes bouts. At the very base of the incisor as well as at its apical part, typical daily increments were revealed again. However, no correlation between the longevity of normothermia bouts and the width of increments was found. These data varied greatly from two other hamsters. In the Ciscaucasian hamster (Mesocricetus raddei) the number and character of increments comply with the number and duration of normothermia bouts, in the Common hamster (Cricetus cricetus), the “hibernation zone” was not recorded on the incisor surface. The Turkish hamster demonstrate an intermediate pattern, which we explain by quite different hibernation conditions of these species.

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