Reproduction and postnatal growth of the Cabrera vole, <i>Microtus cabrerae</i>, in captivity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Three pairs of the endangered Cabrera vole, Microtus cabrerae, which is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula, were captured in the wild and reared in captivity. They did not breed under standard laboratory conditions, and bred only under conditions similar to those found in wild colonies. Six litters were obtained and a total of 24 pups were monitored. Five external variables were measured and timing of 11 developmental events was recorded for each pup until it was 80 days old. Litter size was 4.0 ± 0.89 (mean ± SE; range = 35) pups per female, falling within the range reported for other Microtus species. Litter size of M. cabrerae was lower in the laboratory than in the field. Female body mass was correlated with litter mass at birth. Newborns were heavy (3.5 g, on average) compared with those of other Microtus species because of the relatively large size of adult M. cabrerae. Timing of the main developmental events followed a similar pattern to that observed for other species of the genus. Juvenile M. cabrerae grew fast in length during lactation, rapidly increasing their body mass during postweaning. Observations on parental behaviour in rearing pups support the previously published hypothesis that the species is monogamous. A global assessment of our results suggests that M. cabrerae should be included among the species that use the K strategy of reproduction.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".