Vigilance of kit foxes at water sources: A test of competing hypotheses for a solitary carnivore subject to predation
@article{Hall2013VigilanceOK, title={Vigilance of kit foxes at water sources: A test of competing hypotheses for a solitary carnivore subject to predation}, author={L. Hall and C. Day and Matthew D. Westover and Robert J. Edgel and B. McMillan}, journal={Behavioural Processes}, year={2013}, volume={94}, pages={76-82} }
Animals that are potential prey do not respond equally to direct and indirect cues related to risk of predation. Based on differential responses to cues, three hypotheses have been proposed to explain spatial variation in vigilance behavior. The predator-vigilance hypothesis proposes that prey increase vigilance where there is evidence of predators. The visibility-vigilance hypothesis suggests that prey increase vigilance where visibility is obstructed. Alternatively, the refuge-vigilance… CONTINUE READING
13 Citations
Fear, foraging and olfaction: how mesopredators avoid costly interactions with apex predators
- Biology, Medicine
- Oecologia
- 2018
- 11
- PDF
The influence of environmental and social factors on high- and low-cost vigilance in bat-eared foxes
- Biology
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- 2017
- 7
Difficulties in Monitoring Conspecifics Mediate the Effects of Visual Obstruction on the Level and Synchronization of Vigilance
- Psychology
- Front. Ecol. Evol.
- 2017
- 8
- PDF
Effects of Vegetation Structure on the Location of Lion Kill Sites in African Thicket
- Geography, Medicine
- PloS one
- 2016
- 36
- PDF
Spatial and temporal interactions between top carnivores at water sources in two deserts of western North America
- Environmental Science
- 2021
- 1
Comparing direct and indirect methods to estimate detection rates and site use of a cryptic semi-aquatic carnivore
- Biology
- 2016
- 11
Water Developments and Canids in Two North American Deserts: A Test of the Indirect Effect of Water Hypothesis
- Medicine, Biology
- PloS one
- 2013
- 17
- PDF
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 73 REFERENCES
Individual vigilance of African herbivores while drinking: the role of immediate predation risk and context
- Biology
- Animal Behaviour
- 2010
- 92
- Highly Influential
Vigilance and predation of a forest-living bird species depend on large-scale habitat structure
- Biology
- 2009
- 43
- PDF
Vigilance and foraging patterns of American elk during the rut in habitats with and without predators
- Biology
- 2003
- 112
Effect of Direct and Indirect Cues of Predation Risk on the Foraging Behavior of the White-Footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)
- Biology
- 2010
- 19
- PDF
VISIBILITY AND VIGILANCE: BEHAVIOR AND POPULATION ECOLOGY OF UINTA GROUND SQUIRRELS (SPERMOPHILUS ARMATUS) IN DIFFERENT HABITATS
- Biology
- 2006
- 22
- PDF
PREDATOR VIGILANCE AND GROUP SIZE IN MAMMALS AND BIRDS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
- Psychology, Medicine
- Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- 1989
- 986
The effects of habitat on the vigilance of shorebirds: Is visibility important?
- Biology
- Animal Behaviour
- 1984
- 230
The function of vigilance in sympatric marsupial carnivores: the eastern quoll and the Tasmanian devil
- Biology, Medicine
- Animal Behaviour
- 1998
- 48
- PDF