Magyari Márta (szerk.): A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 2011-2012 (Debrecen, 2012)
Természettudomány - Dudás Miklós–Homonnai Kinga–Molnár Attila: A pusztai mormota (Marmota bobak) és a pusztai pocoknyúl (Ochotona pusilla) Kárpát-medencei előfordulásai
A PUSZTAI MORMOTA (MARMOTA BOBAK) ÉS A PUSZTAI POCOKNYÚL (OCHOTONA PUSILLA) KÁRPÁT-MEDENCEI ELŐFORDULÁSAI 87 Dudás Miklós-Homonnai Kinga-Molnár Attila Occurences of bobak marmot and steppe pica in the Pannon biogeographic region Some of the caracteristic ice age rodents, like Bobak Marmot (Marmota bobac) and Steppe Pika (Ochotona pusilla) were videly distributed in the Pannon region until the early Holocene epoch. Numerous fossil records confirm the Pleistocene-Holocene occurences of these species. Fossil remnants of bobak are known from Transylvania, eastern part of the Hungaian Lowland (Érmellék, Debrecen), Bükk hills in N- and Budai- hills in Central-Hungary. Recently Bobak Marmot occures in Europe only on the steppes of East-Europe. Steppe Pika had even a larger area in the late pleistocene and early Holocene. Paleontological data indicate the approximate disappearance of this species from the Pannon region in the Neolithic ages or later. Hortobágy National Park Directorate decided to demonstrate for visitors - at last in captivity - some of those species which extinct in the Pannon region (or in the sensu stricto Hortobágy) caused by human impact, but still not disappeared globally. The „Malomháza" wildlife park and the „Pentezug" wild horse project- area exhibit some of these species like Wild Horse, „Auruch" Golden Jackal, Wolf, Great White Pelican, Griffon Vulture. The above mentioned rodent species should be important elements of this program, becuse of their attractiveness and (partially) elaborated methods of their keeping in captivity. This exhibition should not reduced only educational purposes but can fulfil scientific approaches like investigation of their behavioural ecology, erproductive biology, feeding ethology. Results of such kind of investigations can provide useful information for the practical conservation of these species too.
