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dc.contributor.authorNafus, Melia G.
dc.contributor.authorGermano, Jennifer M.
dc.contributor.authorSwaisgood, Ronald R.
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-27T23:20:51Z
dc.date.available2020-05-27T23:20:51Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier0340-5443, 1432-0762
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00265-017-2387-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12634/276
dc.descriptionDescription: Some predators of desert tortoise have become more common due to human “subsidies”, food from waste or agriculture. One such predator that might contribute to the decline of tortoises is the coyote. Using tortoises at SDZG’s Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, we found that the presence of coyote urine caused captive tortoises to spend more time in burrows. Although this helps tortoises avoid predation, an increasing presence of coyotes on the landscape may cause tortoises to spend more time below ground and, therefore, less time above ground foraging. Thus coyotes may affect tortoises by indirect effects as well as predation.
dc.description.abstractAnimals are expected to engage in behavioral decision-making that minimizes their risk of predation; these decisions can cause non-lethal predator effects to behavior and spatial use. Our goal was to determine whether non-lethal effects of a common predator, coyotes (Canis latrans), could affect the behavior of a declining reptile, the Mojave Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), hereafter tortoise....
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.urlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-017-2387-0
dc.rightsCopyright © 2017, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany
dc.subjectPREDATION
dc.subjectCOYOTES
dc.subjectDESERT TORTOISES
dc.subjectBEHAVIOR
dc.subjectANIMAL-HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
dc.titleCues from a common predator cause survival-linked behavioral adjustments in Mojave Desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii)
dc.typeArticle
dc.source.journaltitleBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
dc.source.volume71
dc.source.issue10
dc.source.beginpage158
dcterms.dateAccepted2017
html.description.abstractAnimals are expected to engage in behavioral decision-making that minimizes their risk of predation; these decisions can cause non-lethal predator effects to behavior and spatial use. Our goal was to determine whether non-lethal effects of a common predator, coyotes (Canis latrans), could affect the behavior of a declining reptile, the Mojave Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), hereafter tortoise....


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