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| Exploring fission-fusion dynamics in California quail using RFID tracking Allison M.Roth, Praveen Rao, Vinaya Kumar. University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA |
Abstract
Examining the ways in which individuals interact in the wild can help fill crucial gaps in our understanding of the evolutionary implications and selective consequences of animal sociality. Radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology is being increasingly used in ecology and evolutionary biology to remotely track the movements of individuals that are uniquely marked with Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags. The spatiotemporal reads of PIT tagged individuals can be used to infer social interactions between dyads, with individuals who are recorded in the same place and time considered to be associating. This dyadic data can in turn be used to build social networks. We use RFID-PIT technology to track two populations of wild California quail, allowing us to build detailed social networks and study the fission-fusion dynamics of these birds across various timescales. Our research will shed light on the causes and consequences of social interactions in wild California quail.
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