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Honestly exaggerated: howler monkey roars are reliable signals of body size and behaviourally relevant to listeners 老实说,夸张了:吼猴的叫声是身体大小的可靠信号,与听众的行为有关
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123424
Jacob C. Dunn , Eloise Pedersen , Holly Farmer , Phillipa Dobbs , W. Tecumseh Fitch , David Reby , Benjamin Charlton
Acoustic signals are key components of animal social behaviour, potentially conveying fitness-relevant information about signallers. Howler monkeys produce extremely loud, low-frequency roars, which exaggerate the acoustic impression of body size relative to other species. However, whether howler monkey roars contain reliable information about body size within species, and whether conspecific listeners use this information and adjust their responses accordingly, remain unclear. In this study, whether the roars of black-and-gold howler monkeys, Alouatta caraya, serve as honest signals of body size was first examined by analysing the relationship between formant spacing and body mass in 11 adult males. The results revealed a strong negative correlation: larger males produced roars with lower formant spacing. Subsequently, the behavioural relevance of the variation in formant spacing was tested using playback experiments. These were conducted with 23 conspecific listeners, simulating the roars of unknown males with small, average and large body sizes. Listeners showed significantly different responses to calls of different body sizes. When presented with calls simulating larger males, they were more likely to approach and spent longer orientated towards the playback speaker. The effect of simulated body size on the likelihood of listeners vocalizing in response was not significant, although males spent more time vocalizing in response to playbacks than females. These findings indicate that formant spacing in howler monkey roars serves as an honest indicator of body size and plays a critical role in mediating social interactions. Our study highlights the adaptive importance of acoustic cues to body size, which can provide receivers with accurate information that can be used to assess rivals or choose mates.
声音信号是动物社会行为的关键组成部分,潜在地传递有关信号者的健康相关信息。吼猴发出非常响亮、低频的吼声,与其他物种相比,这放大了它们对身体大小的听觉印象。然而,嗥叫猴的叫声是否包含物种体型的可靠信息,以及同类的听者是否使用这些信息并相应地调整他们的反应,目前还不清楚。在这项研究中,黑金吼猴(Alouatta caraya)的吼声是否可以作为身体大小的真实信号,首先通过分析11只成年雄性的形成峰间距和体重之间的关系来检验。结果显示了强烈的负相关:较大的雄性发出的吼声与较低的形成峰间隔。随后,使用回放实验测试了形成峰间隔变化的行为相关性。这些实验是由23个相同的听众进行的,模拟了体型小、中等和大的未知雄性的吼声。听者对不同体型的叫声的反应明显不同。当听到模仿体型较大的雄性的叫声时,它们更有可能接近扬声器,并花更长时间盯着扬声器。模拟的体型对听者发声回应的可能性的影响并不显著,尽管男性比女性花更多的时间来回应回放。这些发现表明,咆哮猴吼声中的形成峰间隔是身体大小的可靠指标,在调节社会互动中起着关键作用。我们的研究强调了声音线索对身体大小的适应性重要性,它可以为接受者提供准确的信息,用于评估对手或选择配偶。
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Effects of negative stimuli on object permanence performance in baboons, Papio anubis, according to task complexity 负刺激对狒狒客体持久性表现的影响,根据任务复杂性
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123427
E. Mortessagne , S. Bouziane , A. Meguerditchian , F. Pifferi , E. Pouydebat , D. Bovet
Object permanence is a fundamental aspect of spatial cognition, referring to the ability to understand that objects continue to exist even when out of sight. This cognitive skill, essential for object tracking in daily activities, provides a relevant ecological framework for exploring how emotional states can affect cognitive performances across species with varying evolutionary histories. The transposition task, a common method for assessing object permanence, evaluates individuals' ability to track the movement of an object hidden under a container. While the complex relationship between emotion and cognition is extensively studied in a diversity of taxa, little is known about how emotion influences performance in object permanence tasks in primates. In this study, we investigated the effect of emotional distractors on the performance of four adult and captive olive baboons, Papio anubis, during a modified transposition task. The task involved a choice between two cups, one containing a food reward and the other containing either nothing (control condition), an identification medal (neutral condition) or plastic snakes/spiders (negative condition). Task difficulty was manipulated through five cups’ displacement patterns. We compared the success rates (i.e. tracking and pointing toward the cup containing the reward) across those three conditions. Our results suggest that the presence of a negative distractor influenced baboon performance in various ways, depending on the difficulty of the task. This research underscores that factors such as task difficulty are essential in interpreting how emotion interacts with cognitive performance, and that the lack of consideration of such factors may, in part, explain conflicting results across experimental studies.
物体持久性是空间认知的一个基本方面,指的是理解物体即使在视线之外仍然存在的能力。这种认知技能对于日常活动中的目标跟踪至关重要,为探索情绪状态如何影响具有不同进化历史的物种的认知表现提供了相关的生态框架。换位任务是评估物体持久性的一种常用方法,它评估个体追踪隐藏在容器下的物体运动的能力。虽然情绪和认知之间的复杂关系在不同的分类群中得到了广泛的研究,但对于情绪如何影响灵长类动物在客体持久性任务中的表现,我们知之甚少。在这项研究中,我们研究了情绪干扰物对四只成年和圈养橄榄狒狒(Papio anubis)在修改转位任务中的表现的影响。这项任务包括在两个杯子之间做出选择,一个杯子里有食物奖励,另一个杯子里什么都没有(控制条件),一个鉴定奖章(中立条件)或塑料蛇/蜘蛛(消极条件)。任务难度是通过五个杯子的位移模式来控制的。我们比较了这三种情况下的成功率(即追踪并指向装有奖励的杯子)。我们的研究结果表明,负面干扰物的存在会以不同的方式影响狒狒的表现,这取决于任务的难度。这项研究强调,任务难度等因素在解释情绪如何与认知表现相互作用时是必不可少的,而缺乏对这些因素的考虑可能在一定程度上解释了实验研究中相互矛盾的结果。
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Female assortment in Gouldian finch, Chloebia gouldiae, flocks: a case of female driven social niche construction? 黄斑小黄雀群中的雌性种群组合:雌性驱动的社会生态位构建案例?
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123429
Gregory M. Kohn, Thomas Mateo, Alex Gibson, Christina Galloway
The organization of animal groups is both a cause of and a consequence of patterns of interactions among individuals. The stability of social organization reflects how individuals construct and maintain resilient patterns of interactions across changes in group size and membership. The challenges individuals face within the group are largely a factor of who they choose to interact with. In this study, we describe patterns of social interactions in multiple flocks of Gouldian finches that were exposed to changing social conditions. In the first session, flocks experienced repeated introductions of juveniles into the group. In a second session, males were swapped between two adult flocks. In almost all flocks, we found significant levels of female-driven sex assortment. Further analysis showed that females were more likely to ‘leave’ interactions after being approached by males than were males, thus constituting a social decision by females to avoid male interactions. These findings highlight how the stable interactive decisions made by individuals contribute to higher-order patterns of organization in bird flocks.
动物群体的组织既是个体间相互作用模式的原因,也是其结果。社会组织的稳定性反映了个体如何在群体规模和成员的变化中构建和维持有弹性的互动模式。个人在群体中面临的挑战很大程度上是他们选择与谁互动的一个因素。在这项研究中,我们描述了暴露在不断变化的社会条件下的多群鸟的社会互动模式。在第一阶段,鸟群经历了多次将幼鸟引入群体的过程。在第二阶段,雄性在两个成年群之间交换。在几乎所有的鸟群中,我们都发现了显著程度的由雌性驱动的性别分类。进一步的分析表明,女性在被男性接近后比男性更有可能“离开”互动,从而构成了女性避免男性互动的社会决策。这些发现强调了个体做出的稳定的互动决策如何有助于鸟群的高阶组织模式。
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Timing is everything: accurate parasitism timing is critical to cowbird nestling success 时机决定一切:准确的寄生时机对牛鹂成功孵化至关重要
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123430
Julia Boldrick , Wendy M. Schelsky , Mark E. Hauber , Abigail Tullius , Jeffrey P. Hoover
Obligate brood parasitism is a reproductive strategy whereby the parasitic parent leaves its offspring to be raised by a host of a different species. This has resulted in specialized adaptive behaviours selected to improve the survival of parasitic progeny. The timing of when to leave a parasitic propagule with the host can be paramount to the parasite’s success, and erring in this decision could have dire fitness consequences. Brown-headed cowbirds, Molothrus ater, are North America’s most widespread avian obligate brood parasite and, as generalists, successfully parasitize over 170 host species. Female cowbirds are cryptic and difficult to monitor, and much of how they make parasitic egg-laying decisions is not well understood. Despite the diversity in potential host species, cowbirds nearly always parasitize nests during a narrow window of the host’s egg-laying period just before the onset of incubation, resulting in their offspring typically hatching before the host’s own young. How important is it to get this timing right, and what are reproductive costs to parasitizing nests ‘late’ (i.e. after the onset of host incubation)? We simulated three different parasitic egg-laying timing decisions by adding cowbird eggs to the nests of a locally common host, the prothonotary warbler, Protonotaria citrea, at different stages of the host’s laying and incubation periods and monitored the subsequent effects on cowbird hatching success, hatching asynchrony relative to host eggs, nestling size, haematocrit, a health proxy, and survival. Our experiment established the costs of delayed parasitic egg laying: late egg addition produced cowbird nestlings that hatched at the same time or later than their host nestmates, had smaller same-age body size and showed markedly lower survival compared to those placed in the pre-incubation window, supporting our hypothesis that parasitism timing is a behaviour under strong selection in this, and perhaps other, obligate brood parasites.
专性幼虫寄生是一种生殖策略,寄生父母将其后代留给不同物种的宿主抚养。这导致了选择专门的适应行为来提高寄生后代的存活率。把寄生繁殖体留给宿主的时机对寄生虫的成功至关重要,如果在这个决定上出错,可能会导致可怕的适应性后果。褐头牛鹂,Molothrus ater,是北美分布最广的鸟类专性幼虫寄生虫,作为通才,成功地寄生在170多种宿主物种上。雌性牛郎鸟是神秘的,很难监测,它们如何做出寄生产卵的决定还不太清楚。尽管潜在的寄主物种多种多样,但牛郎鸟几乎总是在寄主产卵期的一个狭窄窗口内寄生巢穴,就在孵化开始之前,导致它们的后代通常在寄主自己的后代之前孵化。选择正确的时间有多重要?“后期”(即在宿主孵化开始后)寄生巢穴的繁殖成本是什么?我们模拟了三种不同的寄生产卵时间决定,通过在宿主产卵和孵化的不同阶段将牛鹂蛋添加到宿主原莺(Protonotaria citrea)的巢中,并监测了随后对牛鹂孵化成功率、与宿主蛋相关的孵化不同步、雏鸟大小、红细胞压度、健康指标和存活率的影响。我们的实验确定了延迟寄生产卵的成本:晚加蛋产生的燕八哥雏鸟与寄主的筑巢同伴在同一时间或更晚孵化,与孵化前窗口的雏鸟相比,它们的同龄体型更小,存活率明显更低,这支持了我们的假设,即寄生时间是一种强烈选择下的行为,可能还有其他的,有义务的幼虫寄生虫。
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A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework 呼吁动物行为的关怀:一个整体的伦理研究框架
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123428
Gal Badihi , Jennifer Taylor-O’Connor , Gabriela Bezerra de Melo Daly , Viola Komeda , Sophia Daoudi-Simison , Evelina D. Rodrigues , Michael M. Webster , Drew M. Altschul , Catherine Hobaiter , Charlotte Wiltshire , Harmonie Klein , Elodie Freymann , Charlotte Grund , Adrian Soldati , Matthew Henderson , Maël M. Leroux , Nora E. Slania
Despite increasing awareness of animal welfare, there are vast discrepancies between legal protections and recommended practices for different species, in different countries and at different institutions. While many guidelines are now available, they often target specific research contexts or species, leaving a gap in comprehensive ethical oversight across the entire research process. Within animal behaviour research, there is a bias for considering ethics during only the methodology and design phase. This often means only the immediate impact on animals directly involved in the research is accounted for. Conducting ethical research should extend beyond ensuring animal welfare during data collection and include environmentally sustainable research practices, alongside the ethical treatment of people working within and alongside animal behaviour research. We offer the Consult, Approve, Research and Evaluate (CARE) framework to improve the scientific integrity, transparency and ethical practices within the field of animal behaviour. CARE encourages researchers and academic bodies to (1) Consult existing (academic and traditional) knowledge on the study species, local human–animal interactions, their environment and previously implemented ethical practices and to reflect on personal experience and biases when approaching a study question; (2) seek Approval from relevant bodies (e.g. institutional ethics committees and local and government authorities) even when not mandatory; (3) uphold ethical standards while carrying out Research and (4) Evaluate the short- and long-term impacts of the specific study. Our framework is designed to distribute accountability at every level of the academic system, from individual researchers to their institutions, funding bodies and publishers. We pitch this framework as a ‘version 1.0’ to recognize the fast-evolving nature of ethical standards in animal behaviour research and to allow space for improvement. CARE provides a necessary infrastructure for addressing systemic biases and ensuring ethically sound, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable animal behaviour research.
尽管人们对动物福利的意识日益增强,但不同国家和不同机构对不同物种的法律保护和建议做法之间存在巨大差异。虽然现在有许多指导方针,但它们往往针对特定的研究背景或物种,在整个研究过程中留下了全面伦理监督的空白。在动物行为研究中,只在方法论和设计阶段考虑伦理是有偏见的。这通常意味着只考虑对直接参与研究的动物的直接影响。开展伦理研究应超越在数据收集过程中确保动物福利的范围,还应包括环境可持续的研究实践,以及对从事动物行为研究的人员的伦理待遇。我们提供咨询、批准、研究和评估(CARE)框架,以提高动物行为领域的科学完整性、透明度和道德实践。CARE鼓励研究人员和学术机构(1)咨询现有的(学术和传统的)关于研究物种的知识,当地人与动物的相互作用,他们的环境和以前实施的道德实践,并在处理研究问题时反思个人经验和偏见;(2)即使不是强制性的,也要寻求相关机构(如院校伦理委员会、地方和政府部门)的批准;(3)在进行研究时坚持道德标准;(4)评估具体研究的短期和长期影响。我们的框架旨在将责任分配到学术体系的各个层面,从研究人员个人到他们的机构、资助机构和出版商。我们将这个框架定位为“1.0版本”,以认识到动物行为研究中道德标准的快速发展性质,并为改进留出空间。CARE提供了必要的基础设施,以解决系统性偏见,并确保在道德上健全、对社会负责和环境可持续的动物行为研究。
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Experimental exposure of indirect light at night alters western bluebird parent activity and nestling development 夜间间接光照对西部蓝鸟亲本活动和雏鸟发育的影响
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123419
Kerstin Ozkan, Jordan M. Langley, Clinton D. Francis
The pervasive spread of artificial light at night has been documented to disrupt natural rhythms with varying consequences on wildlife. Disruption to the night sky can alter nestling development either through indirect exposure to light or due to changes in adults' behaviour, both having potential physiological costs or benefits. To test these effects, we experimentally manipulated light outside of western bluebird, Sialia mexicana, nesting cavities and investigated whether exposure to light at night affects nestling development and adult behaviour. We found no evidence of light at night advancing or delaying the onset or cessation of adult daily activity; however, repeatability analyses suggested that onset and cessation of daily activity was more repeatable for pairs breeding in control nests compared to those in nests with experimental light exposure. Additionally, we found that nestlings exposed to light had smaller wing chords and lower mass than those in the control. The effect of light on night was dependent on brood size: nests exposed to light with brood sizes of three nestlings had smaller wing chords than nests without lights, but there were no strong differences between light-exposed nests and control nests with five chicks. Nevertheless, light-exposed chicks were smaller than those in control nests, which could negatively influence fledgling survival. These findings suggest that indirect artificial light outside the nesting cavity can increase variability in daily activity rhythms and influence the development of nestlings.
据记载,夜间人造光的广泛传播扰乱了自然节律,对野生动物造成了不同的影响。夜空的破坏可能会通过间接暴露在光线下或由于成人行为的改变而改变雏鸟的发育,两者都有潜在的生理成本或益处。为了测试这些影响,我们通过实验操纵西部蓝知更鸟(Sialia mexicana)巢穴外的光线,研究夜间暴露在光线下是否会影响雏鸟的发育和成虫的行为。我们没有发现夜间光线会促进或延迟成人日常活动的开始或停止的证据;然而,可重复性分析表明,与在实验光照射下的巢穴中繁殖的配对相比,在对照巢中繁殖的配对每日活动的开始和停止更具可重复性。此外,我们发现暴露在光线下的雏鸟比对照组的雏鸟翼弦更小,质量更低。光照对夜间的影响取决于雏鸟的数量:光照下有3只雏鸟的巢比没有光照的巢的翼弦更小,但光照下的巢和有5只雏鸟的对照巢之间没有明显的差异。然而,光照下的雏鸟比对照组的雏鸟体型要小,这可能会对雏鸟的存活率产生负面影响。这些发现表明,巢腔外的间接人造光可以增加日常活动节奏的可变性,并影响雏鸟的发育。
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Reduced visibility and audibility prompt antipredator behaviour even in a relatively predator-free environment 即使在相对没有捕食者的环境中,能见度和可听性的降低也会促使反捕食者行为
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123420
Daniel J. Herrera , Lara Abedin , Gabriela Palomo , Merri Collins , Jishan Chowdhury , Krista Shires , Travis Gallo
Intermittent antipredator behaviours, such as vigilance or increased foraging group size, are behavioural adaptations that allow prey species to forage while simultaneously reducing predation risk. Such behaviours are most useful when environmental conditions permit prey to detect potential predators, and when environmental conditions accurately signal heightened predation risk. When local environmental conditions reduce a prey's predator detection ability, prey may compensate by increasing their vigilance behaviour or forming larger group sizes regardless of actual predation risk. We tested this hypothesis by pairing acoustic recorders and light meters with trail cameras to record white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, vigilance behaviour and group size along gradients of ambient light, noise and human disturbance, as humans are consistently the only ‘predator’ of deer in our study system. Our findings supported our hypothesis that deer are more likely to express vigilance when low-light conditions preclude them from seeing an approaching predator, but noise and human disturbance had no statistical relationship with vigilance behaviour. Conversely, foraging group size increased in high-noise conditions and decreased during periods of high light and human disturbance. These results suggest that deer compensate for reduced predator detection ability by increasing antipredator behaviours even when predation risk is negligible, supporting the notion that landscapes of fear are reliant on the ability to perceive potential predators rather than the presence of predators themselves. Conservation initiatives can capitalize on this information by maintaining conditions that reduce prey species' ability to perceive potential predators and thus confer the benefits of impending predation even in the absence of predators.
间歇性的反捕食者行为,如警惕或增加觅食群体的规模,是一种行为适应,允许猎物在觅食的同时降低被捕食的风险。当环境条件允许猎物发现潜在的捕食者时,当环境条件准确地表明捕食风险增加时,这种行为是最有用的。当当地环境条件降低了猎物发现捕食者的能力时,猎物可能会通过提高警惕行为或形成更大的群体来补偿,而不管实际的捕食风险。为了验证这一假设,我们将声学记录仪和测光仪与跟踪摄像机配对,记录了白尾鹿(Odocoileus virginianus)在环境光、噪音和人类干扰的梯度下的警觉行为和群体规模,因为在我们的研究系统中,人类一直是鹿的唯一“捕食者”。我们的研究结果支持了我们的假设,即当低光条件使鹿无法看到接近的捕食者时,鹿更有可能表现出警惕,但噪音和人类干扰与警惕行为没有统计学上的关系。相反,在高噪音条件下,觅食群体的大小增加,在强光和人为干扰期间,觅食群体的大小减少。这些结果表明,即使在捕食风险可以忽略不计的情况下,鹿也会通过增加反捕食者行为来弥补捕食者探测能力的降低,这支持了恐惧景观依赖于感知潜在捕食者的能力而不是捕食者本身存在的观点。保护计划可以利用这些信息,通过维持条件,降低被捕食物种感知潜在捕食者的能力,从而在没有捕食者的情况下也能获得即将到来的捕食者的好处。
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Great tits show serial reversal learning in the perseverance phase but not in the new learning phase 大山雀在坚持阶段表现出连续的反向学习,而在新学习阶段则没有
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123416
Ernő Vincze , Anders Brodin
An animal possessing reversal learning ability is capable of unlearning a previously learnt association between a stimulus and a reward and learning a new contingency. It is a form of behavioural flexibility, which can be advantageous in changing environments. Serial reversal learning occurs when an animal's performance improves over repeated reversals of contingencies. In this study, we tested the serial reversal learning ability of great tits, Parus major, in an aviary experiment where they could choose between two laterally positioned locations marked with different symbols. One of the two locations contained a hidden food reward, and the side that was rewarding and unrewarding was reversed several times for each bird. We divided the learning process after each reversal into two phases, the perseverance phase and the new learning phase, quantified by the number of visits before and after the first visit to the newly rewarding location, respectively. We found that the length of the perseverance phase significantly decreased over repeated reversals. However, there was no corresponding decrease in the length of the new learning phase. This suggests that perseverance and new learning are separate cognitive processes and that the former may be less challenging than the latter. Initially, the birds also showed a colour preference for yellow over blue, but this did not affect their reversal learning ability. The high behavioural flexibility of great tits may help explain their success in exploiting challenging environments.
具有反向学习能力的动物能够忘记先前学习过的刺激和奖励之间的联系,并学习新的偶然性。这是行为灵活性的一种形式,在不断变化的环境中是有利的。当动物的表现通过反复的偶然性反转而提高时,就会发生连续反转学习。在这项研究中,我们在一个鸟舍实验中测试了大山雀(Parus major)的连续反转学习能力,在这个实验中,它们可以在两个用不同符号标记的横向位置之间进行选择。两个地点中的一个包含隐藏的食物奖励,并且每只鸟的奖励和不奖励的一面被颠倒了几次。我们将每次逆转后的学习过程分为两个阶段,坚持阶段和新的学习阶段,分别通过第一次访问新奖励地点之前和之后的访问次数来量化。我们发现,反复逆转后,坚持期的长度显著减少。然而,新学习阶段的长度并没有相应的减少。这表明毅力和新学习是两个独立的认知过程,前者可能比后者更具挑战性。起初,这些鸟也表现出对黄色比蓝色更偏爱的颜色,但这并不影响它们的反向学习能力。大山雀的高度行为灵活性可能有助于解释它们成功地利用具有挑战性的环境。
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Behaviour identification and time–activity budget estimation of threatened little bustard using accelerometry 基于加速度计的受威胁小鸨行为识别和时间-活动预算估计
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123415
Natalia Revilla-Martín , João Paulo Silva , François Mougeot , Manuel B. Morales , Ana Teresa Marques , Santi Mañosa , David Giralt , Vincent Bretagnolle , Gerard Bota , Beatriz Arroyo , Carolina Bravo
Understanding animal ecology requires knowing what animals do. GPS devices provide detailed insights into space use, but they lack behavioural information until recent advancements in accelerometry have bridged this gap. In this study, machine learning methods were applied to accelerometry data to identify and classify behaviours in little bustard, Tetrax tetrax, a species whose population is declining because of habitat loss and degradation. Using recordings of four captive individuals, models were fitted to classify key behaviours, standing, lying, vigilance, locomotion, foraging and male courtship, with separate models for each sex because of behavioural differences. In addition, different sampling frequencies, balancing methods and data-splitting approaches were tested to examine interindividual variation and the effect of sample size. Results revealed that models built with data sampled at 10 Hz performed similarly to those sampled at 20 Hz. Male models slightly outperformed female models, achieving precision and sensitivity exceeding 0.87. Male-specific behaviours, such as courtship, attained F1-scores above 0.8. The application of the models to 10 free-ranging individuals showed marked seasonal and sexual differences in time–activity budgets. Males changed their behaviour seasonally, devoting more time to vigilance, locomotion and courtship during the breeding season and to foraging in winter. On the contrary, females showed a more consistent behaviour pattern year-round, predominantly resting, although lying increased during the breeding season, likely reflecting incubation. These findings indicate the potential application of machine learning and accelerometry to monitor behaviours in free-ranging little bustards, offering a valuable tool to understand activity patterns and develop conservation strategies for this threatened species.
了解动物生态学需要了解动物的行为。GPS设备提供了空间使用的详细信息,但它们缺乏行为信息,直到最近加速测量技术的进步弥补了这一差距。在这项研究中,机器学习方法应用于加速度测量数据,以识别和分类小鸨,Tetrax Tetrax,这是一个由于栖息地丧失和退化而种群数量下降的物种。利用四只圈养个体的记录,模型被拟合用于分类关键行为,站立、躺卧、警觉、运动、觅食和雄性求偶,由于行为差异,每种性别都有单独的模型。此外,我们还测试了不同的采样频率、平衡方法和数据分割方法,以检验个体间差异和样本量的影响。结果显示,以10赫兹采样数据建立的模型与以20赫兹采样数据建立的模型表现相似。男性模型略优于女性模型,精度和灵敏度均超过0.87。男性特有的行为,比如求偶行为,得分都在0.8以上。将该模型应用于10个自由放养个体,发现时间活动预算存在明显的季节性和性别差异。雄性会根据季节改变它们的行为,在繁殖季节花更多的时间来保持警惕、移动和求偶,在冬天花更多的时间来觅食。相反,雌性全年表现出更一致的行为模式,主要是休息,尽管在繁殖季节说谎增加,可能反映了孵化。这些发现表明,机器学习和加速度测量法在监测自由放养的小鸨行为方面的潜在应用,为了解这种濒危物种的活动模式和制定保护策略提供了有价值的工具。
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Tempted yet cautious: how described odds lower risk aversion in capuchins 诱惑但谨慎:如何描述风险降低风险厌恶卷尾猴
IF 2.1 2区 生物学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Pub Date : 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123422
Anthony Roig , Arianna Ferretti , Serena Gastaldi , Helene Meunier , Elsa Addessi
Risk-taking decisions are pervasive throughout life, influencing both everyday choices and long-term survival strategies. In this study, to shed light on the evolutionary origins of human risk attitude, we investigated the description-experience gap in 15 tufted capuchin monkeys, Sapajus spp., from the Primate Center of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of CNR (Rome, Italy) by comparing risky choices under two conditions. In the description condition, subjects received explicit information about the probability of obtaining a larger reward, whereas in the experience condition, they had to infer these probabilities through repeated sampling. Our results reveal that capuchins were generally risk-averse and that risk aversion was more pronounced when probabilities were explicitly described than when they were learned through experience. Moreover, a complex three-way interaction among condition, age and past experience indicated that an individual's risk attitude depended not only on chronological age but also on the cumulative exposure to uncertain outcomes, an effect that emerged solely in the experience condition, in which explicit information was not provided. In addition, sex differences were observed, with males displaying a more pronounced description-experience gap than females. Overall, our findings help clarify the evolutionary tenets of decision-making mechanisms under uncertainty, offering valuable insights into how ecological, demographic and experiential factors jointly shape risk-sensitive decision-making in nonhuman primates and, by extension, humans.
冒险决定在人的一生中无处不在,既影响日常选择,也影响长期生存战略。在这项研究中,为了阐明人类风险态度的进化起源,我们通过比较两种情况下的风险选择,研究了来自意大利罗马CNR认知科学与技术研究所灵长类动物中心的15只簇毛卷尾猴(Sapajus spp.)的描述经验差距。在描述条件下,受试者获得关于获得更大奖励的概率的明确信息,而在经验条件下,他们必须通过反复抽样来推断这些概率。我们的研究结果表明,卷尾猴通常是厌恶风险的,当概率被明确描述时,风险厌恶比通过经验学习时更为明显。此外,条件、年龄和过去经验之间复杂的三向相互作用表明,个体的风险态度不仅取决于实足年龄,而且还取决于对不确定结果的累积暴露,这种影响仅在经验条件下出现,其中没有提供明确的信息。此外,性别差异也被观察到,男性比女性表现出更明显的描述经验差距。总的来说,我们的研究结果有助于阐明不确定性下决策机制的进化原则,为生态、人口和经验因素如何共同影响非人灵长类动物以及人类的风险敏感决策提供了有价值的见解。
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