Patterson, Fiona Alexandra https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8737-7995
Ruperto, Emmanuel Fabián https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2375
Vicenzi, Nadia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7309-7294
Menéndez, Josefina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6430-639X
Sassi, Paola Lorena https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3362-8980
Funding for this research was provided by:
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (PIP 2015-0280)
Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnología - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (PICT 2015-2699)
Secretaría de Investigación, Internacionales y Posgrado, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (2019-M089)
Article History
Received: 28 October 2024
Revised: 21 November 2025
Accepted: 4 December 2025
First Online: 8 January 2026
Declarations
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: All procedures adhered to the guidelines of the Canadian Council on Animal Care and the Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching (Bee et al. ), and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of IADIZA, CONICET (Protocol No. 002/2019). Animal collection was conducted under permits from the Department of Renewable Natural Resources, Mendoza Government, Argentina (No. 461–1–04–03873, RES 405), which authorized access to protected areas and the capture of the study species.
: the authors declare no financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.