Anand, Shaurabh and Radhakrishna, Sindhu
(2022)
Collective movement decision-making in primates in crop-raiding contexts.
Behavioural Processes, 196 (104604).
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| Abstract: |
Crop-raiding by wildlife species often involves collective group movement and animal decision-making in this context is an important area of investigation as the risks and rewards associated with crop-raiding are greater than those that are likely to occur in wild food foraging situations. Yet, the form of consensus decision-making involved in wildlife crop-raiding has not been evaluated. In the current study, we assessed the decision-making process exhibited by rhesus macaques, a generalist primate species, in the context of crop-raiding. We predicted that rhesus macaques would display unshared consensus decision-making during the higher risk-entailed crop-raiding collective movements. We followed two groups of rhesus macaques and collected data on their movement and foraging behavior during crop-raiding events. The results from our study showed that collective movements in the context of crop-raiding were largely led by single individuals. However, individuals of all age-sex categories successfully led crop-raiding collective movements. Although adult individuals joined adult-initiated raid movements most often, they also joined raids initiated by other age classes. Contrary to our predictions, in crop-raiding contexts, rhesus macaques demonstrated a tendency towards equally shared decision-making for group movements. |
| Item Type: |
Journal Paper
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| Keywords: |
Collective movement, Crop-raiding, Consensus decision-making, Primates, Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) |
| Subjects: |
Programmes > Animal Behaviour and Cognition
School of Natural and Engineering Sciences > Animal Behaviour |
| Date Deposited: |
29 Jul 2022 06:45 |
| Last Modified: |
29 Jul 2022 06:45 |
| Official URL: |
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... |
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| Funders: |
Shaurabh Anand supported by institutional fellowship |
| Projects: |
UNSPECIFIED |
| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104604 |
| URI: |
http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/2337 |
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