Locomotor ability and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots

Ethology

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 615-634

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a,b   Runyan, Andrea ^b   Seymour, Mona ^b   Nicodemus, Amanda ^b   Ozgul, Arpat ^c   Ransler, Findley ^b   Im, Soyeon ^a   Stark, Tricia ^a   Zugmeyer, Claire ^a   Daniel, Janice C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; LOCOMOTION; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; MARMOTA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 4043130358     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.01000.x     Document Type: Article

References (86)

1. Andersen, D. C. & Johns, D. W. 1977: Predation by badger on yellow-bellied marmot in Colorado. Southwest. Nat. 22, 283-284.
2. Armitage, K. B. 1975: Social behavior and population dynamics of marmots. Oikos 26, 341-354.
3. Armitage, K. B. 1982: Yellow-bellied marmot. In: CRC Handbook of Census Methods for Terrestrial Vertebrates (Davis, D. E., ed.). CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, FL, pp. 148-149.
4. Armitage, K. B. 1987: Social dynamics of mammals: reproductive success, kinship, and individual fitness. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2, 279-284.
5. Armitage, K. B. 1988: Resources and social organization of ground-dwelling squirrels. In: The Ecology of Social Behavior (Slobodchikoff, C. N., ed.). Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 131-155.
6. Armitage, K. B. & Blumstein, D. T. 2002: Body-mass diversity in marmots. In: Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Marmots, Cheboksary, Russia, 25-30 August 1997 (Armitage, K. B. & Rumiantsev, V. Y., eds). ABF Publishing House, Moscow, pp. 22-40.
7. Armitage, K. B., Salsbury, C. M., Barthelmess, E. L., Gray, R. C. & Kovach, A. 1996: Population time budget for the yellow-bellied marmot. Ethol. Ecol. Evol. 8, 67-95.
8. Arnez, C. L. & Leger, D. W. 1997: Artificial visual obstruction, antipredator vigilance, and predator detection in the thirteen-lined ground squirrel. (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus). Behaviour 134, 1101-1114.
9. Atchley, W. R., Gaskins, C. T. & Anderson, D. 1976: Statistical properties of ratios. I. Empirical results. Syst. Zool. 25, 137-148.
10. Blanchard, D. C. 1997: Stimulus, environmental, and pharmacological control of defensive behaviors. In: The Functional Behaviorism of Robert C. Bolles: Learning, Motivation and Cognition (Bouton, M. E. & Fanselow, M. S., eds). American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, pp. 283-305.
11. Blanchard, D. C., Griebel, G. & Blanchard, R. J. 2001: Mouse defensive behaviors: pharmacological and behavioral assays for anxiety and panic. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 25, 205-218.
12. Blanchard, R. J. & Blanchard, D. C. 1972: Effects of hippocampal lesions on the rat's reaction to a cat. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 78, 77-82.
13. Blumstein, D. T. 1989: Food habits of red-tailed hawks in Boulder County, Colorado. J. Raptor Res. 23, 53-55.
14. Blumstein, D. T. 1992: Multivariate analysis of golden marmot maximum running speed: a new method to study MRS in the field. Ecology 73, 1757-1767.
15. Blumstein, D. T. 1996: How much does social group size influence golden marmot vigilance? Behaviour 133, 1133-1151.
16. Blumstein, D. T. 1998: Quantifying predation risk for refuging animals: a case study with golden marmots. Ethology 104, 501-516.
17. Blumstein, D. T. 2003: Flight initiation distance in birds is dependent on intruder starting distance. J. Wildl. Manage. 67, 852-857.
18. Blumstein, D. T. & Armitage, K. B. 1998: Life history consequences of social complexity: a comparative study of ground-dwelling sciurids. Behav. Ecol. 9, 8-19.
19. Blumstein, D. T. & Daniel, J. C. 2002: Isolation from mammalian predators differentially affects two congeners. Behav. Ecol. 13, 657-663.
20. Blumstein, D. T., Evans, C. S. & Daniel, J. C. 2000: JWatcher 0.9. An introductory user's guide. http://www.jwatcher.ucla.edu.
21. Boake, C. R. B. 1989: Repeatability: its role in evolutionary studies of mating behavior. Evol. Ecol. 3, 173-182.
22. Boake, C. R. B. (ed.) 1994: Quantitative Genetic Studies of Behavioral Evolution. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
23. Boinski, S., Kauffman, L., Westoll, A., Stickler, C. M., Cropp, S. & Ehmke, E. 2003: Are vigilance, risk from avian predators and group size consequences of habitat structure? A comparison of three species of squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii, S. boliviensis, and S. sciureus). Behaviour 140, 1421-1467.
24. Bonenfant, M. & Kramer, D. L. 1996: The influence of distance to burrow on flight initiation distance in the woodchuck, Marmota monax. Behav. Ecol. 7, 299-303.
25. Bowers, M. A., Jefferson, J. L. & Kuebler, M. G. 1993: Variation in giving-up densities of foraging chipmunks (Tamias striatus) and squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis). Oikos 66, 229-236.
26. Brodie, E. D., III 1989: Genetic correlations between morphology and antipredator behaviour in natural populations of the garter snake Thamnophis ordinoides. Nature 342, 542-543.
27. Brown, J. S., Morgan, R. A. & Dow, B. D. 1992: Patch use under predation risk: II. A test with fox squirrels, Sciurus niger. Ann. Zool. Fennici 29, 311-318.
28. Byers, J. A. 1997: American Pronghorn: Social Adaptations and the Ghosts of Predators Past. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
29. Capitanio, J. P. 1999: Personality dimensions in adult male rhesus macaques: prediction of behaviors across time and situation. Am. J. Primatol. 47, 299-320.
30. Carey, H. V. & Moore, P. 1986: Foraging and predation risk in yellow-bellied marmots. Am. Midl. Nat. 116, 267-275.
31. Cassini, M. H. 1991: Foraging under predation risk in the wild guinea pig Cavia aperea. Oikos 62, 20-24.
32. Clark, C. W. & Mangel, M. 1986: The evolutionary advantages of group foraging. Theor. Pop. Biol. 30, 45-79.
33. Cohen, J. 1988: Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edn. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Hillsdale, NJ.
34. Colosimo, P. F., Peichel, C. L., Nereng, K., Blackman, B. K., Shapiro, M. D., Schulter, D. & Kingsley, D. M. 2004: The genetic architecture of parallel armor plate reduction in threespine sticklebacks. Public Library of Science Biology (www.plosbiology.org) 2, 635-641.
35. Cooper, W. E., Jr, Vitt, L. J., Hedges, R. & Huey, R. B. 1990: Locomotor impairment and defense in gravid lizards (Eumeces laticeps): behavioral shift in activity may offset costs of reproduction in an active forager. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 27, 153-157.
36. Coss, R. G. 1999: Effects of relaxed natural selection on the evolution of behavior. In: Geographic Variation in Behavior: Perspectives on Evolutionary Mechanisms (Foster, S. A. & Endler, J. A., eds). Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, pp. 180-208.
37. Cuadrado, M., Martín, J. & López, P. 2001: Camouflage and escape decisions in the common chameleon Chamaeleo chamaeleon. Biol. J. Lin. Soc. 72, 547-554.
38. Dehn, M. M. 1990: Vigilance for predators: detection and dilution effects. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 26, 337-342.
39. Dill, L. M. 1990: Distance-to-cover and the escape decisions of an African cichlid fish, Melanochromis chipokae. Environ. Biol. Fishes 27, 147-152.
40. Dill, L. M. & Houtman, R. 1989: The influence of distance to refuge on flight initiation distance in the gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Can. J. Zool. 67, 233-235.
41. Djawdan, M. & Garland, T., Jr 1988: Maximal running speeds of bipedal and quadrupedal rodents. J. Mamm. 69, 765-772.
42. Dukas, R. 1998: Constraints on information processing and their effects on behavior. In: Cognitive Ecology: the Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making (Dukas, R., ed.). Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, pp. 89-127.
43. Dukas, R. & Kamil, A. C. 2000: The cost of limited attention in blue jays. Behav. Ecol. 11, 502-506.
44. Dulawa, S. C., Grandy, D. K., Low, M. J., Paulus, M. P. & Geyer, M. A. 1999: Dopamine D4 receptor-knock-out mice exhibit reduced exploration of novel stimuli. J. Neurosci. 19, 9550-9556.
45. Edmunds, M. 1974: Defense in Animals. Longman, New York.
46. Elgar, M. A. 1989: Predator vigilance and group size in mammals and birds: a critical review of the empirical evidence. Biol. Rev. 64, 13-33.
47. Endler, J. A. 1995: Multiple-trait coevolution and environmental gradients in guppies. Trends Ecol. Evol. 10, 22-29.
48. Falconer, D. S. 1981: Introduction to Quantitative Genetics, 2nd edn. The Pitman Press, Bath, UK.
49. Frase, B. A. & Hoffmann, R. S. 1980: Marmota flaviventris. Mamm. Sp. 135, 1-8.
50. Gosling, S. D. 2001: From mice to men: what can we learn about personality from animal research? Psych. Bull. 127, 45-86.
51. Gould, S. J. & Lewontin, R. C. 1979: The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 205, 581-598.
52. Hamilton, W. D. 1971: Geometry for the selfish herd. J. Theor. Biol. 31, 295-311.
53. Hanson, M. T. & Coss, R. G. 1997: Age differences in the response of California ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi) to avian and mammalian predators. J. Comp. Psychol. 111, 174-184.
54. Hedrick, A. V. 2000: Crickets with extravagant mating songs compensate for predation risk with extra caution. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 267, 671-675.
55. Ikuta, L. A. & Blumstein, D. T. 2003: Do fences protect birds from human disturbance? Biol. Cons. 112, 447-452.
56. Irschick, D. J. 2003: Measuring performance in nature: implications for studies of fitness within populations. Integr. Comp. Biol. 43, 396-407.
57. Irschick, D. J. & Losos, J. B. 1999: Do lizards avoid habitats in which performance is submaximal? The relationship between sprinting capabilities and structural habitat use in Caribbean anoles. Am. Nat. 154, 293-305.
58. Leger, D. W., Owings, D. H. & Coss, R. G. 1983: Behavioral ecology of time allocation in California ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi): microhabitat effects. J. Comp. Psych. 97, 283-291.
59. Lima, S. L. & Bednekoff, P. A. 1999: Back to the basics of antipredator vigilance: can nonvigilant animals detect attack? Anim. Behav. 58, 537-543.
60. Lima, S. L. & Dill, L. M. 1990: Behavioral decisions made under the risk of predation: a review and prospectus. Can. J. Zool. 68, 619-640.
61. Longland, W. S. & Jenkins, S. H. 1987: Sex and age affect vulnerability of desert rodets to owl predation. J. Mamm. 68, 746-754.
62. Losos, J. B. 1990: The evolution of form and function: morphology and locomotor performance in West Indian Anolis lizards. Evolution 44, 1189-1203.
63. Losos, J. B. & Irschick, D. J. 1996: The effect of perch diameter on escape behaviour of Anolis lizards: laboratory predictions and field tests. Anim. Behav. 51, 593-602.
64. Loughry, W. J. & Lazari, A. 1994: The ontogeny of individuality in black-tailed prairie dogs, Cynomys ludovicianus. Can. J. Zool. 72, 1280-1286.
65. Magurran, A. E. & Seghers, B. H. 1994: Predator inspection behaviour covaries with schooling tendency amongst wild guppy, Poecilia reticulata, populations in Trinidad. Behaviour 128, 121-134.
66. Malleret, G., Hen, R., Guillou, J.-L., Segu, L. & Buhot, M.-C. 1999: 5-HT1B receptor knock-out mice exhibit increased exploratory activity and enhanced spatial memory performance in the Morris water maze. J. Neurosci. 19, 6157-6168.
67. Mandelik, Y., Jones, M. & Dayan, T. 2003: Structurally complex habitat and sensory adaptations mediate the behavioural responses of a desert rodent to an indirect cue for increased predation risk. Evol. Ecol. Res. 5, 501-515.
68. Melville, J. & Swain, R. 2003: Evolutionary correlations between escape behaviour and performance ability in eight species of snow skinks (Niveoscincus: Lygosominae) from Tasmania. J. Zool. Lond. 261, 79-89.
69. Newman, J. A., Recer, G. M., Zwicker, S. M. & Caraco, T. 1988: Effects of predation hazard on foraging 'constraints': patch-use strategies in grey squirrels. Oikos 53, 93-97.
70. Pulliam, H. R. 1973: On the advantages of flocking. J. Theor. Biol. 38, 419-422.
71. Riechert, S. E. & Hedrick, A. V. 1993: A test of correlation among fitness-related behavioral traits in the spider, Agelenopsis aperta (Araneae, Agelinadae). Anim. Behav. 46, 669-675.
72. Runyan, A. M. & Blumstein, D. T. (in press): Do individual differences influence flight initiation distance. J. Wildl. Manage. (in press).
73. Schoener, T. W. 1988: On testing the MacArthur-Wilson model with data on rates. Am. Nat. 131, 847-864.
74. Sharpe, P. B. & Van Horne, B. 1998: Influence of habitat on behavior of Townsend's ground squirrels (Spermophilus townsendii). J. Mamm. 79, 906-918.
75. Sih, A., Bell, A. M., Johnson, J. C. & Ziemba, R. E. (in press): Behavioral syndromes: an integrative overview. Q. Rev. Biol. (in press).
76. Sih, A. 1987: Predators and prey lifestyles: an evolutionary and ecological overview. In: Predation: direct and indirect impacts on aquatic communities. (Kerfoot, W. C. & Sih, A., eds). University Press of New England, Hanover, pp. 203-224.
77. Sih, A., Kats, L. B. & Maurer, E. F. 2003: Behavioural correlations across situations and the evolution of antipredator behaviour in a sunfish-salamander system. Anim. Behav. 65, 29-44.
78. Sokal, R. R. & Rohlf, F. J. 1981: Biometry. W.H. Freeman and Co., New York.
79. SPSS, Inc. 2000. SPSS-10 for the Macintosh. SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL.
80. Taylor, C. R., Caldwell, S. L. & Rowntree, V. J. 1972: Running up and down hills: some consequences of size. Science 178, 1096-1097.
81. Trombulak, S. C. 1989: Running speed and body mass in Belding's ground squirrels. J. Mamm. 70, 194-197.
82. Van Vuren, D. 1991: Yellow-bellied marmots as prey of coyotes. Am. Midl. Nat. 125, 135-139.
83. Van Vuren, D. 2001: Predation on yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Am. Midl. Nat. 145, 94-100.
84. Vine, I. 1971: Risk of visual detection and pursuit by a predator and the selective advantage of flocking behaviour. J. Theor. Biol. 30, 405-422.
85. Werner, E. E. & Gilliam, J. F. 1984: The ontogenetic niche and species interactions in size-structured populations. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 15, 393-425.
86. Ydenberg, R. C. & Dill, L. M. 1986: The economics of fleeing from predators. Adv. Study Behav. 16, 229-249.