期刊
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
卷 26, 期 6, 页码 1577-1586出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arv115
关键词
accelerometry; intermittent locomotion; Markov chains; network position; personality
资金
- NSERC Discovery Grant
- Canada Research Chairs Program
- Carleton University
Group living in animals is a well-studied phenomenon, having been documented extensively in a wide range of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species. Although social dynamics are complex across space and time, recent technological and analytical advances enable deeper understanding of their nature and ecological implications. While for some taxa, a great deal of information is known regarding the mechanistic underpinnings of these social processes, knowledge of these mechanisms in elasmobranchs is lacking. Here, we used an integrative and novel combination of direct observation, accelerometer biologgers, and recent advances in network analysis to better understand the mechanistic bases of individual-level differences in sociality ( leadership, network attributes) and diel patterns of locomotor activity in a widespread marine predator, the lemon shark ( Negaprion brevirostris). We found that dynamic models of interaction based on Markov chains can accurately predict juvenile lemon shark social behavior and that lemon sharks did not occupy consistent positions within their network. Lemon sharks did however preferentially associate with specific group members, by sex as well as by similarity or nonsimilarity for a number of behavioral ( nonsimilarity: leadership) and locomotor traits ( similarity: proportion of time swimming fast, mean swim duration; nonsimilarity: proportion of swimming bursts/transitions between activity states). Our study provides some of the first information on the mechanistic bases of group living and personality in sharks and further, a potential experimental approach for studying fine-scale differences in behavior and locomotor patterns in difficult-to-study organisms.
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