Social networks of reintroduced Przewalski’s horses in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area (Mongolia)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/70/2/182/7087053#448771353" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/70/2/182/7087053#448771353</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoad011" target="_blank" >10.1093/cz/zoad011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social networks of reintroduced Przewalski’s horses in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area (Mongolia)

Original language description

Analyzing social networks is a powerful tool for understanding the ecology of social species. While most studies focus on the role of each group member, few compare groups with different characteristics. The current population of Przewalski’s horses Equus ferus przewalskii at the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area (Mongolia) includes groups of wild-born and captive-bred individuals with different experiences with the area (acclimatizing, long-term reintroduced, and wild-born), therefore serving as an ideal natural behavioral lab. We filmed 11 groups for 141.5 hours in summer 2018 (July), late spring 2019 (May, June), and autumn 2019 (September, October). Affiliative and agonistic interactions were recorded, and social networks were created. We tested the influence of origin, experience, season, sex, age, relative time belonging to the group, relatedness, and dominance rank on different network indices at the individual and group levels. We found that groups with greater experience in the area are generally better connected than members of the newly formed groups. However, these strong networks were created by wild-born individuals with very low interaction rates. On the contrary, inexperienced groups composed of captive-bred individuals displayed many interactions but created weak social networks. The results show a trend of behavioral transition from acclimatizing through long-term reintroduced to wild-born groups, supporting that the newly formed groups of released Przewalski’s horses need time to display the typical social behavior patterns of wild-born individuals. Long-term monitoring of released Przewalski’s horses is recommended to promote the success of this reintroduction program.

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

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

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

1674-5507

Volume of the periodical

70

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

182-194

UT code for WoS article

000975811800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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