Animal lifestyle affects acceptable mass limits for attached tags

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F21%3A89446" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/21:89446 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2021.2005" target="_blank" >https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2021.2005</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2005" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2021.2005</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Animal lifestyle affects acceptable mass limits for attached tags
Original language description
Animal attached devices have transformed our understanding of vertebrate ecology. To minimize any associated harm, researchers have long advocated that tag masses should not exceed 3% of carrier body mass. However, this ignores tag forces resulting from animal movement. Using data from collar attached accelerometers on 10 diverse free ranging terrestrial species from koalas to cheetahs, we detail a tag based acceleration method to clarify acceptable tag mass limits. We quantify animal athleticism in terms of fractions of animal movement time devoted to different collar recorded accelerations and convert those accelerations to forces (acceleration x tag mass) to allow derivation of any defined force limits for specified fractions of any animal active time. Specifying that tags should exert forces that are less than 3% of the gravitational force exerted on the animal body for 95% of the time led to corrected tag masses that should constitute between 1,6% and 2,98% of carrier mass, depending on athletic
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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