Behavioural compatibility, not fear, best predicts the looking patterns of chacma baboons.

ABSTRACT: Animal vigilance is often investigated under a narrow set of scenarios, but this approach may overestimate its contribution to animal lives. A solution may be to sample all looking behaviours and investigate numerous competing hypotheses in a single analysis. In this study, using a wild group of habituated chacma baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes) as a model system, we implemented a framework for predicting the key drivers of looking by comparing the strength of a full array of biological hypotheses. This included methods for defining individual-specific social threat environments, quantifying individual tolerance to human observers, and incorporating predator resource selection functions. Although we found evidence supporting reactionary and within-group (social) vigilance hypotheses, risk

SUBMITTER: Allan ATL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11319805 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature