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Dear Prof. Vogel,
reading your comment in DORMOUSE TALK 2 (3), I like to mention "my hibernation anecdote" and add a question:
Now my questions - do you know of similar observations (dormice recognize poisonous food; poisonous mealworms)?
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Ingo Rieger
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Dear Dr Rieger,
I thank you for your report on Glis eating mealworms and rejecting others after the death of two bats. In fact, I have no explanation. Your interpretation may be right, but I am not sure, and there is no possible test. It is often so with exceptional observations. However, some times, they may result in new projects and new insight.
Peter Vogel
Prof. Dr. Peter VOGEL
Institut d'Ecologie - Zoologie et Ecologie Animale
Bâtiment de Biologie
Université de Lausanne
CH 1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
We checked our nest boxes in the beginning of May and mainly found new dormice (Glis), among them two females. On June 2, five animals were in one nestbox (four females and one male) and three in another (two males); males had clearly scrotal testes.
Beech is doing well this year and we expect a lot of mast; during the last visit in June I found signs that dormice were feeding on mast already.
Does anybody have observations from this spring?
Best wishes, Boris
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