Influences of sociality and habitat on African mole-rat burrowing patterns
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The movement choices that animals make are influenced by many factors including resource availability, which in turn can affect whether the animals search for resources alone or in groups. Subterranean rodents are ideal for examining movement paths because they create burrows that persist for extended periods and thus serve as records of movement. African mole-rat species (Bathyergidae) are solitary, social, or eusocial, and inhabit a variety of habitat types. In this study, mole-rat burrowing patterns were examined by analyzing the spatial patterns of the soil mounds that they create as they burrow. Mound spatial patterns were examined for solitary and social species occurring in two habitats, which differed in rainfall, soil moisture, and vegetation availability. Examination of mound spatial patterns at multiple spatial scales revealed that mounds of single burrow systems were clustered at small spatial scales (<6 m), while mounds were not clustered at the larger spatial scales of the entire burrow systems. Spatial patterns of mounds did not differ in relation to sociality or habitat characteristics. These findings, as well as evidence from other taxa, may suggest common burrowing strategies for subterranean rodents.
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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.
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