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Disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black‐necked cranes Grus nigricollis, but not as strongly as expected

Animals monitor surrounding dangers independently or cooperatively (synchronized and coordinated vigilance), with independent and synchronized scanning being prevalent. Coordinated vigilance, including unique sentinel behavior, is rare in nature, since it is time‐consuming and limited in terms of be...

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Autores principales: Kong, Dejun, Møller, Anders Pape, Zhang, Yanyun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33717455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7196
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description Animals monitor surrounding dangers independently or cooperatively (synchronized and coordinated vigilance), with independent and synchronized scanning being prevalent. Coordinated vigilance, including unique sentinel behavior, is rare in nature, since it is time‐consuming and limited in terms of benefits. No evidence showed animals adopt alternative vigilance strategies during antipredation scanning yet. Considering the nonindependent nature of both synchronization and coordination, we assessed whether group members could keep alert synchronously or in a coordinated fashion under different circumstance. We studied how human behavior and species‐specific variables impacted individual and collective vigilance of globally threatened black‐necked cranes (Grus nigricollis) and explored behavior‐based wildlife management. We tested both predation risk (number of juveniles in group) and human disturbance (level and distance) effects on individual and collective antipredation vigilance of black‐necked crane families. Adults spent significantly more time (proportion and duration) on scanning than juveniles, and parents with juveniles behaved more vigilant. Both adults and juveniles increased time allocation and duration on vigilance with observer proximity. Deviation between observed and expected collective vigilance varied with disturbance and predation risk from zero, but not significantly so, indicating that an independent vigilance strategy was adopted by black‐necked crane couples. The birds showed synchronized vigilance in low disturbance areas, with fewer juveniles and far from observers; otherwise, they scanned in coordinated fashion. The collective vigilance, from synchronized to coordinated pattern, varied as a function of observer distance that helped us determine a safe distance of 403.75 m for the most vulnerable family groups with two juveniles. We argue that vigilance could constitute a prime indicator in behavior‐based species conservation, and we suggesting a safe distance of at least 400 m should be considered in future tourist management.
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spelling pubmed-79207612021-03-12 Disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black‐necked cranes Grus nigricollis, but not as strongly as expected Kong, Dejun Møller, Anders Pape Zhang, Yanyun Ecol Evol Original Research Animals monitor surrounding dangers independently or cooperatively (synchronized and coordinated vigilance), with independent and synchronized scanning being prevalent. Coordinated vigilance, including unique sentinel behavior, is rare in nature, since it is time‐consuming and limited in terms of benefits. No evidence showed animals adopt alternative vigilance strategies during antipredation scanning yet. Considering the nonindependent nature of both synchronization and coordination, we assessed whether group members could keep alert synchronously or in a coordinated fashion under different circumstance. We studied how human behavior and species‐specific variables impacted individual and collective vigilance of globally threatened black‐necked cranes (Grus nigricollis) and explored behavior‐based wildlife management. We tested both predation risk (number of juveniles in group) and human disturbance (level and distance) effects on individual and collective antipredation vigilance of black‐necked crane families. Adults spent significantly more time (proportion and duration) on scanning than juveniles, and parents with juveniles behaved more vigilant. Both adults and juveniles increased time allocation and duration on vigilance with observer proximity. Deviation between observed and expected collective vigilance varied with disturbance and predation risk from zero, but not significantly so, indicating that an independent vigilance strategy was adopted by black‐necked crane couples. The birds showed synchronized vigilance in low disturbance areas, with fewer juveniles and far from observers; otherwise, they scanned in coordinated fashion. The collective vigilance, from synchronized to coordinated pattern, varied as a function of observer distance that helped us determine a safe distance of 403.75 m for the most vulnerable family groups with two juveniles. We argue that vigilance could constitute a prime indicator in behavior‐based species conservation, and we suggesting a safe distance of at least 400 m should be considered in future tourist management. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7920761/ /pubmed/33717455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7196 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kong, Dejun
Møller, Anders Pape
Zhang, Yanyun
Disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black‐necked cranes Grus nigricollis, but not as strongly as expected
title Disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black‐necked cranes Grus nigricollis, but not as strongly as expected
title_full Disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black‐necked cranes Grus nigricollis, but not as strongly as expected
title_fullStr Disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black‐necked cranes Grus nigricollis, but not as strongly as expected
title_full_unstemmed Disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black‐necked cranes Grus nigricollis, but not as strongly as expected
title_short Disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black‐necked cranes Grus nigricollis, but not as strongly as expected
title_sort disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black‐necked cranes grus nigricollis, but not as strongly as expected
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33717455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7196
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