El Comportamiento de Cortejo Y Agonístico en la Familia Squamata: Tropiduridae

Abstract

The lizards occupy most ecosystems on the planet, one of the most diverse vertebrates in nature, this characteristic is due to their evolutionary success; For this reason they are ideal for research on ecological and behavioral area because of its accessibility to the experimental work (Font et al, 2010; Greenberg, 1978). The Tropiduridae family, commonly known as lizards Neotropics, has a wide distribution over the Andes and even reach lowlands (DAMA, 2006; Lynch & Renjifo, 2001; Suarez, 2011) species have developed behavioral strategies to communicate some type of message to other individuals, these messages keep animal societies; These signals are emitted by animals to communicate something specific to other individuals, some types of signals use different anatomical structures and physiological states for display to its receptor (Fitted, 2009; Carranza, 1994, Pianka & Vitt, 2006) in lizards, the exhibits are part, in most cases, social events such as reproductive and domain (Wiens, 2000) Because of this need was given to contribute to the search and analysis of scientific etologic production type in the Tropiduridae family, a family that is distributed in our country and in the South american continent in a variety of ecosystems and altitudes, which will reveal social aspects in this family, as are the different interactions exhibition between individuals of the same sex, how and what types of signals are used in the behavior domain, fight and competitiveness and intersexual behavioral strategies involved in reproduction, such as courtship, copulation and post-copulation (Trigosso et al., 2002). information about courtship and agonistic behavior in different international journals databases was collected; then the information collected in a list of behavior patterns found in species within the family Tropiduridae systematized; finally the information obtained about the behavior of agonistic interaction and courtship critically analyzed. In search of information in the databases most jobs were Taxonomic second measure type and Ecology (Area campeo and autoecology) and really scarce dedicate to the study of behavior; search following the schedule was finalized and the nine selected articles that talk about behavior contain only three issues agonistic interactions and / or courtship; One can say that the state of courtship behavior and agonistic encounters little input from not exceeding more than 5 jobs. Although the family is composed with a number of more than three hundred species, research on social behavior especially not represent or 4% of the studies that have been conducted within Tropiduridae.