Anthropogenic noise interacts with the predation risk assessment in a free-ranging bird.

ABSTRACT: Anthropogenic noise can affect a number of behavioral, physiological, and ecological aspects of animals from major taxonomic groups, raising serious conservation concerns. For example, noise pollution impacts communicative behavior and perception of signals, movements and distribution, as well as predator-prey interactions, such as hunting success or predator detection and predation risk assessment. We have carried out an experimental playback study, in which we investigated whether exposure to anthropogenic noise (sound of a tractor) distracts free-ranging barn swallows Hirundo rustica from paying attention to an approaching human "predator" (the "cognitive distraction" hypothesis), or whether noise leads to increased responsiveness to this "predator" (the "increased threat" hypoth

SUBMITTER: Matyjasiak P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11255998 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature