Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30376
Title: Intrapopulation variation in the behavioral responses of dwarf mongooses to anthropogenic noise
Contributor(s): Eastcott, Emma (author); Kern, Julie M  (author)orcid ; Morris-Drake, Amy (author); Radford, Andrew N (author)
Publication Date: 2020
Early Online Version: 2020-02-22
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa011
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30376
Abstract: Anthropogenic noise is an increasingly widespread pollutant, with a rapidly burgeoning literature demonstrating impacts on humans and other animals. However, most studies have simply considered if there is an effect of noise, examining the overall cohort response. Although substantial evidence exists for intraspecific variation in responses to other anthropogenic disturbances, this possibility has received relatively little experimental attention with respect to noise. Here, we used field-based playbacks with dwarf mongooses (Helogale parvula) to test how traffic noise affects vigilance behavior and to examine potential variation between individuals of different age class, sex, and dominance status. Foragers exhibited a stronger immediate reaction and increased their subsequent vigilance (both that on the ground and as a sentinel) in response to traffic-noise playback compared with ambient-sound playback. Traffic-noise playback also resulted in sentinels conducting longer bouts and being more likely to change post height or location than in ambient-sound playback. Moreover, there was evidence of variation in noise responses with respect to age class and dominance status but not sex. In traffic noise, foraging pups were more likely to flee and were slower to resume foraging than adults; they also tended to increase their vigilance more than adults. Dominants were more likely than subordinates to move post during sentinel bouts conducted in traffic-noise trials. Our findings suggest that the vigilance–foraging trade-off is affected by traffic noise but that individuals differ in how they respond. Future work should, therefore, consider intrapopulation response variation to understand fully the population-wide effects of this global pollutant.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Behavioral Ecology, 31(3), p. 680-691
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 1465-7279
1045-2249
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 060201 Behavioural Ecology
060801 Animal Behaviour
060304 Ethology and Sociobiology
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 310301 Behavioural ecology
310901 Animal behaviour
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Environmental and Rural Science

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