%0 Journal Article %A CHAI Xiangxian %A FU Heping %A LV Shijie %A CHAO Ketu %A WU Xiaodong %A YUAN Shuai %A LU Zhihong %A Man Duhu %A XING An %A YANG Suwen %T Influence of wind and light on the burrow-sealing behavior of Transbaikal zokor(Myospalax psilurus) %D 2016 %R 10.16829/j.slxb.201602010 %J ACTA THERIOLOGICA SINICA %P 215-220 %V 36 %N 2 %X Burrow-sealing behavior of Transbaikal zokor (Myospalax psilurus) is considered as a adaption to long-term underground living. Some research suggests that sealing-behavior was caused by the zokors’ fear of wind and light. However this view lacked empirical evidence. A study using a 2×2 contingency-table design including 2 factors and 4 treatments was conducted in August, 2014 in a Hulunbuir pasture, Inner Mongolia to examine the burrow-sealing behavior of zokors. Sixty-eight zokors were randomly divided into 4 groups, and each group was subjected to 1 treatment. Data of burrow-sealing behavior were recorded and analyzed using mutual information analysis of Shannon information and chi-square test. The results show that combination of wind with light did not affect sealing behavior of Transbaikal zokor(I=7.22×10-5); both wind and light had no significant influence on Transbaikal zokor sealing behavior (P﹥0.05) . These results indicated that sealing behavior of Transbaikal zokor did not correlated with wind and light. %U http://www.mammal.cn/EN/10.16829/j.slxb.201602010