The influence of habitat on travel speed, intermittent locomotion, and vigilance in a diurnal rodent

By R. Vásquez, L. Ebensperger, Francisco Bozinovic. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Cost of foraging in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum: effect of soil hardness (2006, background): “For example, in Octodon degu (Molina, 1782), the proportion of time devoted to pausing behavior and vigilance across habitats has been discussed as evidence that this species perceives higher predation risk in open areas and that this flexible movement behavior reflects an adaptive antipredator resp”
Sociality in New World hystricognath rodents is linked to predators and burrow digging (2006, unknown): “…also is in conflict with more indirect evidence supporting that shrubs provided protection against predation in some social New World hystricognaths such as cavies (Cavia aperea; Asher et al., 2004; Cassini, 1991) or degus (Ebensperger and Wallem, 2002; Lagos et al., 1995; Vásquez et al., 2002).”
Behavioral tradeoffs when dispersing across a patchy landscape (2005, background): “Many animals have been observed stopping frequently while moving (Anderson et al. 1997, Wiens et al. 1997), and some have hypothesized that this stop-and-go movement pattern serves to reduce risks of predation via enhanced vigilance (McAdam and Kramer 1998, Kramer and McLaughlin 2001, Vasquez et al”
Gap‐Crossing Decisions by the Red Squirrel, a Forest‐Dependent Small Mammal (2004, background): “Pausing rates are higher in riskier habitat as animals stop to scan for predators (McAdam & Kramer 1998; Kramer & McLaughlin 2001; Vásquez et al. 2002).”
Vigilance and Collective Detection of Predators in Degus (Octodon degus) (2006, background): “…in visual contact of each other, a condition needed to detect group-size effects on vigilance (Blumstein 1996) and (ii) because previous studies have recorded that this distance significantly influences vigilance activity of degus (Vásquez 1997; Ebensperger & Wallem 2002; Vásquez et al. 2002).”