The role of habituation in the adjustment to urban life: An experimental approach with burrowing owls
| Autor: | Alejandro V. Baladrón, Matilde Cavalli, María Susana Bó, Laura Marina Biondi, Juan Pablo Isacch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
Male media_common.quotation_subject Otras Ciencias Biológicas Argentina FLIGHT INITIATION DISTANCE Stimulus (physiology) BURROWINGS OWLS 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Developmental psychology Ciencias Biológicas Behavioral Neuroscience Environmental risk Perception parasitic diseases Personality Animals Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Habituation Habituation Psychophysiologic Ecosystem media_common Behavior Animal 05 social sciences General Medicine Fear URBAN HABITATS Strigiformes Risk perception Aggression Trait Animal Science and Zoology Female Urban life Psychology RURAL HABITATS psychological phenomena and processes CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS |
| Zdroj: | Behavioural processes. 157 |
| ISSN: | 1872-8308 |
| Popis: | Birds exhibit variation in fear behaviour in response to an approaching human within and between species and across different habitat contexts. We analyze urban and rural burrowing owls’ variation in risk perception along separate but consecutive days (Treatment 1) and risk perception within the same day (Treatment 2). Fear behaviour was measured as flight initiation distances (FIDs) and aggressiveness level when a pedestrian approached repeatedly to an owl individual. We predict that the attenuation in fear response along treatments should add support to the habituation hypothesis (decrease the response to a repeatedly stimulus after verifying that it is irrelevant) while consistency in behaviour might be indicative of a personality trait. We found that FID decreased for measurements made on both treatments in rural owls and also in urban owls for Treatment 2. These results are compatible with a habituation process. We found that aggressiveness remained invariable along treatments in both habitats suggesting that different mechanisms underlie these behavioural responses. Our results suggest that owls’ risk perception to humans can be adjusted based on environmental risk perception and that individuals are able to recognize and learn when a stimuli stops being a threat. Fil: Cavalli, Matilde. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; Argentina Fil: Baladron Felix, Alejandro Victor. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; Argentina Fil: Isacch, Juan Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; Argentina Fil: Biondi, Laura Marina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; Argentina Fil: Albornoz, Maria Susana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; Argentina |
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