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Should I stay or should I go? Determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer (Cervus elaphus) to drive hunts

Hunting can be used as a tool for wildlife management, through limitation of population densities and dissuading game from using sensitive areas. The success of these approaches requires in depth knowledge of prey movement. Indeed, movement decisions of game during hunting may affect the killing suc...

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Autores principales: Chassagneux, Agathe, Calenge, Clément, Marchand, Pascal, Richard, Emmanuelle, Guillaumat, Etienne, Baubet, Eric, Saïd, Sonia
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7062277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32150545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228865
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author Chassagneux, Agathe
Calenge, Clément
Marchand, Pascal
Richard, Emmanuelle
Guillaumat, Etienne
Baubet, Eric
Saïd, Sonia
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Calenge, Clément
Marchand, Pascal
Richard, Emmanuelle
Guillaumat, Etienne
Baubet, Eric
Saïd, Sonia
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description Hunting can be used as a tool for wildlife management, through limitation of population densities and dissuading game from using sensitive areas. The success of these approaches requires in depth knowledge of prey movement. Indeed, movement decisions of game during hunting may affect the killing success of hunters as well as the subsequent location of surviving animals. We thus investigated red deer movement responses to drive hunts and their causal factors. We studied 34 hunting events in the National Estate of Chambord (France) and thereby provided a fine-scale characterization of the immediate and delayed movement responses of red deer to drive hunts. Red deer responded to drive hunts either by immediately fleeing the hunted area, or by initially remaining before ultimately fleeing after the hunters had departed. A few hours after the hunt, all individuals were located in distant areas (> 2 kilometres) from the hunted area. Immediate flight responses were less common when drive hunts occurred in areas with dense understorey. However, neither beater/dog densities nor site familiarity influenced the immediate flight decision. Following a drive hunt, red deer remained outside the hunted areas for periods twice as long compared to periods when no hunting occurred (34 hours vs. 17 hours). Such knowledge of game movement rates in response to drive hunts may help the development of informed management policy for hunted red deer populations.
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spelling pubmed-70622772020-03-23 Should I stay or should I go? Determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer (Cervus elaphus) to drive hunts Chassagneux, Agathe Calenge, Clément Marchand, Pascal Richard, Emmanuelle Guillaumat, Etienne Baubet, Eric Saïd, Sonia PLoS One Research Article Hunting can be used as a tool for wildlife management, through limitation of population densities and dissuading game from using sensitive areas. The success of these approaches requires in depth knowledge of prey movement. Indeed, movement decisions of game during hunting may affect the killing success of hunters as well as the subsequent location of surviving animals. We thus investigated red deer movement responses to drive hunts and their causal factors. We studied 34 hunting events in the National Estate of Chambord (France) and thereby provided a fine-scale characterization of the immediate and delayed movement responses of red deer to drive hunts. Red deer responded to drive hunts either by immediately fleeing the hunted area, or by initially remaining before ultimately fleeing after the hunters had departed. A few hours after the hunt, all individuals were located in distant areas (> 2 kilometres) from the hunted area. Immediate flight responses were less common when drive hunts occurred in areas with dense understorey. However, neither beater/dog densities nor site familiarity influenced the immediate flight decision. Following a drive hunt, red deer remained outside the hunted areas for periods twice as long compared to periods when no hunting occurred (34 hours vs. 17 hours). Such knowledge of game movement rates in response to drive hunts may help the development of informed management policy for hunted red deer populations. Public Library of Science 2020-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7062277/ /pubmed/32150545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228865 Text en © 2020 Chassagneux et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Chassagneux, Agathe
Calenge, Clément
Marchand, Pascal
Richard, Emmanuelle
Guillaumat, Etienne
Baubet, Eric
Saïd, Sonia
Should I stay or should I go? Determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer (Cervus elaphus) to drive hunts
title Should I stay or should I go? Determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer (Cervus elaphus) to drive hunts
title_full Should I stay or should I go? Determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer (Cervus elaphus) to drive hunts
title_fullStr Should I stay or should I go? Determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer (Cervus elaphus) to drive hunts
title_full_unstemmed Should I stay or should I go? Determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer (Cervus elaphus) to drive hunts
title_short Should I stay or should I go? Determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer (Cervus elaphus) to drive hunts
title_sort should i stay or should i go? determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer (cervus elaphus) to drive hunts
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7062277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32150545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228865
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