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Record W3195732385 · doi:10.26443/msurj.v6i1.94

The effect of familiarity on vigilance behaviour in grey squirrels

2011· article· en· W3195732385 on OpenAlexaff
Julia Shonfield

Bibliographic record

VenueMcGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVigilance (psychology)ForagingPsychologyCognitive psychologyBiologyEcology

Abstract

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 Introduction: Vigilance enables an animal to obtain information about the environment but often at a cost of reduced foraging rate. some environmental information may not change rapidly, so vigilance might be safely reduced with familiarity with an area. studies have noted this declinein vigilance with familiarity, but the reason for this decline has not been tested. Methods: I proposed and tested two hypotheses to explain this decline in vigilance. The safe experience hypothesis suggests the probability of a predator being nearby but undetected decreases with time spent in an area, enabling an animal to decrease its vigilance due to the reduced risk. The Visual experience hypothesis suggests that as time progresses vigilant animals acquire more information from their surroundings (e.g. refuge locations) allowing for a decrease in vigilance because an animal would not need to detect a predator as early if reaching a refuge required less time. grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) were used to test these hypotheses by feeding them peanut butter in an apparatus that limited their access to visual information by varying degrees. results: An effect of familiarity was evident by a sharp decline in vigilance rates within trials. squirrels adjusted vigilance postures to the different treatments, but the rate of decline in vigilance was unaffected by treatment. discussion: while vigilance is related to visual information, the decline in vigilance with familiarity is not related to the amount of visual information obtained from the environment, giving provisional support to the safe experience hypothesis.
 
 

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.066
GPT teacher head0.361
Teacher spread0.296 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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