SEASONAL USE OF SUBTERRANEAN SLEEP AND HIBERNATION SITES BY ADULT FEMALE RICHARDSON'S GROUND SQUIRRELS
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Abstract
Adult female Richardson's ground squirrels (Spermophilus richardsonii) spend 84% of their lifetime either sleeping underground at night during the active season or hibernating underground. To assess their use of subterranean sites, 46 females were radiocollared for periods ranging from a few days to 4.5 years. Adult females typically slept in 6–11 different chambers throughout the 15-week active season and used a single site for the 37-week hibernation season. For the 1st half of the active season, which encompassed mating, pregnancy, and lactation, squirrels usually slept in 5–6 different chambers, with each sleep site generally used once for a prolonged period of consecutive nights. In contrast, in the latter half of the active season, females moved back and forth between 5–6 sleep sites. For both females that did and did not wean a litter, this switch in sleep-site usage occurred abruptly, about 40 days before entry into hibernation. Females always slept in the future parturition chamber for some or all of gestation, and they always continued to sleep in the parturition site for some or all of lactation. In contrast, adult females never slept in the future hibernation site on any night during the preceding active season. Only 50% of the females used the hibernaculum for sleeping after hibernation, and then only for 1–5 nights. The marked contrast in prior usage of the parturition site and hibernation site indicates that the hibernaculum chamber of adult female Richardson's ground squirrels is dedicated to the forthcoming hibernation period, whereas the parturition site is a multipurpose chamber used for sleeping during gestation, for parturition, and for sleeping and litter rearing during lactation.
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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) | 0.002 | 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".