On heights and plains: How rodents from different habitats cope with three-dimensional environments?
Fig 4
Trajectories of the routes passed by jirds (A) and spiny mice (B) are depicted for the period from the start until the first arrival to the floor.
The jird and the spiny mouse that were fastest to reach the floor are depicted at the top row. The jird and spiny mouse that were closest to the mean time of the group for reaching the floor are depicted in the middle row, and the jird and spiny mouse that were latest to reach the floor are depicted at the bottom row (the five spiny mice that never reached the floor were excluded from this figure). As shown, jirds preferred to soon descend down to the lower levels and the floor. The jird at the bottom row was the only one that ascended above the starting level before descending down. In contrast, spiny mice travelled the pyramid levels for longer time (and distance), and all of them climbed above the starting level before descending to lower levels or to the floor.