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SUBMITTER: Rowe ZW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10015368 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rowe Zeke W ZW Robins Joseph H JH Rands Sean A SA
Ecology and evolution 20230315 3
Most animals need to spend time being vigilant for predators, at the expense of other activities such as foraging. Group-living animals can benefit from the shared vigilance effort of other group members, with individuals reducing personal vigilance effort as group size increases. Behaviors like active scanning or head lifting are usually used to quantify vigilance but may not be accurate measures of this. We suggest that measuring an animal's blinking rate gives a meaningful measure of vigilanc ...[more]