Attention, noise, and implications for wildlife conservation and management
Anthropogenic stimuli are often viewed as disturbances that directly interfere with signal processing or communication, or directly harm animals. However, such sounds may also distract individuals and thus potentially interfere with their ability to make biologically important decisions about food selection, mate selection, and predator detection. This is because all of these decisions require animals […]
Comparative behavior of primates. III. Complicated delayed reaction tests on primates.
The following complications were introduced into the delayed reaction tests used in the preceding investigations: (1) disorientation and distraction during delay; (2) presentation of two delayed reaction problems concurrently; (3) shifting of containers (within the animal’s view) during the delay period. The distraction tests showed that the animals were not depending upon gross bodily orientation […]
Noise negatively affects foraging and antipredator behaviour in shore crabs
Acoustic noise has the potential to cause stress, to distract and to mask important sounds, and thus to affect behaviour. Human activities have added considerable noise to both terrestrial and aquatic habitats, and there is growing evidence that anthropogenic noise affects communication and movement patterns in a variety of species. However, there has been relatively […]