Patterns of behavior in the Texas tortoise, <i>Gopherus berlandieri</i>: a multivariate ordination approach
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We compared the distribution of 19 categories of behavior exhibited by 47 adult Texas tortoises (Gopherus berlandieri) over 3 years with the use of detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). DCA revealed a gradient from passive to active behavior along axis 1. Tortoises were more active in 1994 and less active in 1996. This pattern was likely due to the extremely hot and dry conditions in 1996. Year was the most significant variable explaining variability in behavior when sex, age, size, year, and grazing treatment (pastures grazed versus ungrazed by cattle) were used as environmental variables in CCA. Age, size, and grazing treatment were not significant variables in CCA. Tortoises used proportionally more burrows, shallow surface depressions termed pallets, and cavity pallets, and ate more cactus in 1996. More foraging and active behaviors, like courtship, were observed in 1994. Sex was a significant variable in explaining behavioral variability after the effects of year were controlled for. Males tended to exhibit more active behaviors than females. Our analyses suggested that the grazing regime used in Chaparral Wildlife Management Area did not affect the patterns of behavior exhibited by this protected tortoise.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".