Primates’ behavioural responses to tourists: evidence for a trade-off between potential risks and benefits
| Autor: | Ann MacLarnon, Stuart Semple, Bonaventura Majolo, Laëtitia Maréchal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences Coping (psychology) L600 Anthropology Trade-off Risk Assessment 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Article Social support Adaptation Psychological Avoidance Learning medicine Animals Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology C300 Zoology Travel Multidisciplinary Behavior Animal Aggression Ecology Wildlife tourism 05 social sciences Provisioning C120 Behavioural Biology C800 Psychology L620 Physical and Biological Anthropology Morocco Threatened species Exploratory Behavior Macaca Female C180 Ecology medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology Tourism |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific reports, 2016, Vol.6, pp.32465 [Peer Reviewed Journal] |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep32465 |
| Popis: | The presence of, and interactions with tourists can be both risky and beneficial for wild animals. In wildlife tourism settings, animals often experience elevated rates of aggression from conspecifics, and they may also be threatened or physically aggressed by the tourists themselves. However, tourist provisioning of wild animals provides them with highly desirable foods. In situations of conflicting motivations such as this, animals would be expected to respond using behavioural coping mechanisms. In the present study, we investigated how animals respond to tourist pressure, using wild adult Barbary macaques in the Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco, as a case study. We found evidence that these animals use a range of different behavioural coping mechanisms–physical avoidance, social support, affiliative, aggressive and displacement behaviours–to cope with the stress associated with tourists. The pattern of use of such behaviours appears to depend on a trade-off between perceived risks and potential benefits. We propose a framework to describe how animals respond to conflicting motivational situations, such as the presence of tourists, that present simultaneously risks and benefits. |
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