Compass-controlled escape behavior in roe deer

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F16%3A72842" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/16:72842 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2142-y" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2142-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2142-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00265-016-2142-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Compass-controlled escape behavior in roe deer

Original language description

We tested the hypothesis that magnetic alignment, a tendency to align the body axis with a certain angle to the field lines of the geomagnetic field, provides direction indicator (the so-called nonsense orientation) also in mammals. We measured alignment of free-ranging (grazing or standing) roe deer and the compass direction of their escape trajectories as well as the direction from the threat and to the next shelter. Roe deer were significantly nonrandomly aligned along the north-south axis when grazing. In 188 provocations performed in open flat habitats, deer also tended to escape along this axis and avoided to escape westwards or eastwards. Thus, in many provocations (those from east or west), animals fled at wide angles, either northwards or southwards and not straight away from the threat, a strategy that would maximize the distance between the animal and the danger. Since all the factors which might influence direction of escape (sun position, wind direction, direction to the shelter, straigh

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-21840S" target="_blank" >GA15-21840S: Magnetosensitivity in dogs and other animals: Magnetic alignment, cognitive maps and selective sensory attention</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

ISSN

0340-5443

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

70

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1345-1355

UT code for WoS article

000380266000020

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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