Essays about: "anti-predatory behaviour"

Found 2 essays containing the words anti-predatory behaviour.

1. 1. Behavioural Responses of Ungulates to Sound Systems : can simulated risk influence behaviour?

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

   Author : Carolin Veronika Berndt; [2021]
   Keywords : ungulates; landscape of fear; behavioural response; predation risk; playback experiment; ABR; management strategies;

   Abstract : Increasing ungulate densities all over Europe are intensifying the ongoing human-wildlife conflict, embodied by mainly economical losses through damages in forestry and agriculture. Given the current circumstances, farmers and forest owners prefer a decrease in ungulate numbers through direct population control, whereas other stakeholders, such as hunters, wildlife watchers or photographers, prefer higher wildlife numbers. READ MORE

3. 2. Anti-predatory responses of White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) to simulated risk. Does poaching create a landscape of fear?

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

   Author : Daniel Gambra Caravantes; [2020]
   Keywords : white rhinoceros; poaching; playback experiment; anti-predatory behaviour; landscape of fear; perceived predation risk;

   Abstract : Predators affect prey’s behaviour which can lead preys to change their spatial use of the habitat, creating a landscape of fear. This is not generally the case for white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), which as megaherbivores (... READ MORE