Information about malayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura) is still limited, whereas in fact porcupine behaviour could give a lot of information about feeding and drinking, grooming, locomoting, urinating, defecating, and resting which is useful for malayan porcupine in captivity. The aim of this research was to observed, study, and analyze the behaviour activity daily of malayan porcupine at captivity small Mammal, Zoology Division, Research Center of Biology LIPI Cibinong, that used to support productivity of porcupines. This information used to handle better pet system, so malayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura) population at proximately can be kept, developed, and exploited. The behaviour was observed with one zero sampling method. Two porcupines aged two years in different sex were used in this experiment. They were observed every 15 minutes from 6 a.m until 6 p.m. The data were analyzed descriptively. Point one would be given if any activity conducted and zero when there was no activity. The temperature and relative humidity were 22–31° C and 64,1–82,2% respectively. The observation showed that resting was the most activity (51.71%), followed by locomoting (20.25%), grooming (13.5%), feeding (9.24%), agonistic (3.2%), urinating (1.62%), drinking (0.36%), and defecating (0.11%). The porcupines were given kangkung (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk), sweet corns (Zea mays L), guava (Psidium guajava L), sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas Poir) and yambean (Pachyrhizus erosus L) with cafeteria system. The sequence of feed election was sweet corn, sweet potatoes, guava, yambean, and kangkung.
Berk. Penel. Hayati Edisi Khusus: 4B (21–25), 2011
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