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Type: Journal article
Title: Flight initiation distance as a behavioral indicator of hunting pressure: a case study of the Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) in Xishuangbanna, SW China
Author: Sreekar, R.
Goodale, E.
Harrison, R.
Citation: Tropical Conservation Science, 2015; 8(2):505-512
Publisher: Mongabay.com
Issue Date: 2015
ISSN: 1940-0829
1940-0829
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Rachakonda Sreekar, Eben Goodale and Rhett D. Harrison
Abstract: Traditional assessments of anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity often ignore hunting pressure or use subjective categories (e.g. high, medium or low) that cannot be readily understood by readers or replicated in other studies. Although animals often appear tame in habitats without hunting compared to habitats with hunting, few studies have demonstrated such effects. We determined the flight initiation distance (FID; i.e. human-animal distance when the animal begins to flee) of a common frugivorous bird of Southeast Asia, Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) across a gradient of hunting pressures in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, SW China. Controlling for confounding effects, we show that FID increased with hunting pressure, which was quantitatively measured through encounters with hunters. As FIDs respond more specifically to hunting than other defaunation metrics, we suggest they can be used as behavioral indicators of hunting pressure in developing conservation strategies.
Keywords: Anti-predator behavior; bushmeat; fear; overexploitation; tameness
Rights: © Rachakonda Sreekar, Eben Goodale and Rhett D. Harrison. This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/. The license permits any user to download, print out, extract, archive, and distribute the article, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and source of the work. The license ensures that the published article will be as widely available as possible and that your article can be included in any scientific archive. Open Access authors retain the copyrights of their papers. Open access is a property of individual works, not necessarily journals or publishers.
DOI: 10.1177/194008291500800214
Published version: http://tropicalconservationscience.mongabay.com/content/v8/tcs_v8i2_505-512_Sreekar.pdf
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