L6 Caro, 2016

Question 1

What are the three categories for links between animal behaviour and anthropogenically driven environmental change?

Answer 1

-Descriptions of changes in behaviour response to human activities
-Animal behaviour research that may have use in captive breeding and reintroduction programmes
-Behavioural solutions to the major concerns of conservation practitioners

Question 2

What is an example of a behavioural change in response to human activity?

Answer 2

-Birds sing for longer durations in cities to counteract background noise
-Coyotes that are more nocturnal are less likely to suffer road mortalities in Canada

Question 3

What does Caro say about the two separate avenues linking the fields of behaviour and conservation?

Answer 3

-Captive breeding and reintroductions
-Direct behaviour relations to drivers of extinction (habit loss, invasive species, pollution etc)

Question 4

What is an example of a species that survived better with reintroduction by being penned before hand?

Answer 4

Jeweled geckos (Naultinus gemmus)