Changes in fox squirrel anti-predator behaviors across the urban–rural gradient

By R. McCleery. Landscape Ecology, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Urbanization and the Predation Paradox: The Role of Trophic Dynamics in Structuring Vertebrate Communities (2012, background): “These distances are generally shorter in more urban areas for songbirds and squirrels (e.g., McCleery 2009, Møller 2009; but cf. Valcarcel and Fernández-Juricic 2009), which again suggests that the perception of predation risk is lower in more urbanized settings.”
Multimodal alarm behavior in urban and rural gray squirrels studied by means of observation and a mechanical robot (2010, background): “McCleery (2009) suggests that because of habituation, fox squirrels have lower levels of vigilance in urban areas, whereas other studies have found that some animals, such as crows (Ward and Low, 1997), show higher vigilance in more urban areas (reviewed by Frid and Dill, 2002).”
Understanding variation in behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change: a conceptual overview (2013, background): “Bolder animals have higher response thresholds for avoiding danger and should thus be more likely to exploit novel opportunities (e.g. invade urban habitats: Møller 2008, 2010; McCleery 2009; Evans et al. 2010) than fearful, reactive individuals, but also more likely to ignore novel predators.”
Behavior Change in Urban Mammals: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “Likewise, fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) in Texas, USA demonstrated the ability to modulate anti-predator behavior to cope with constant stimuli created by humans in the urban environment (McCleery, 2009).”
Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas (2016, unknown): “suggest that after habituating to benign humans, animals may transfer their response to humans to their natural predators (Mccleery, 2009), but more data are needed to understand how widespread this is and the conditions under which it emerges (Geffroy, Samia, Bessa,& Blumstein, 2015).”