Same place, different time, head up: Multiple antipredator responses to a recolonizing apex predator

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/69/6/703/6774972?login=false" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/69/6/703/6774972?login=false</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac083" target="_blank" >10.1093/cz/zoac083</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Same place, different time, head up: Multiple antipredator responses to a recolonizing apex predator

Original language description

Prey adjust their antipredator behavioral tactics to minimize the risk of an encounter with predators. Spatiotemporal responses of prey to predators have been reported, but the nature of antipredator response is not ubiquitous and it is the object of increasing interest, especially considering the recent recovery of large carnivores in Europe, and the potential for behavioral antipredator responses to elicit consequences at the ecosystem level. We have tested multiple antipredator responses by fallow deer Dama dama to wolf Canis lupus in a Mediterranean protected area recently recolonized by this apex predator. Through intensive camera trapping, we tested for temporal and spatial association between predator and prey, and we have also studied deer vigilance in forest habitats where focal observations are usually impossible. Wolf detection rates were spatially associated with those of fallow deer. Accordingly, no evidence was found for fallow deer avoiding sites with higher predator detection rates. Temporal activity patterns were significantly different between the 2 species, with the wolf being mainly nocturnal whereas fallow deer was active especially during daylight. A comparison with a preliminary study strongly suggests an increase in the diurnal activity of fallow deer along with the stabilization of wolf presence in the area. Both the rate and the duration of vigilance of female fallow deer increased with the local frequency of wolf activity. We suggest an antipredator response based on temporal-rather than spatial-avoidance, as well as increased vigilance.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10614 - Behavioral sciences biology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Current Zoology

ISSN

1674-5507

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

703-717

UT code for WoS article

000941922700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147822215