Observing the unwatchable: Integrating automated sensing, naturalistic observations and animal social network analysis in the age of big data

JE Smith, N Pinter‐Wollman - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the 4.5 decades since Altmann (1974) published her seminal paper on the methods for
the observational study of behaviour, automated detection and analysis of social interaction …

Demystifying animal 'personality'(or not): why individual variation matters to experimental biologists

DG Roche, V Careau… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016‏ - journals.biologists.com
Animal 'personality', defined as repeatable inter-individual differences in behaviour, is a
concept in biology that faces intense controversy. Critics argue that the field is riddled with …

Emerging network-based tools in movement ecology

DMP Jacoby, R Freeman - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2016‏ - cell.com
New technologies have vastly increased the available data on animal movement and
behaviour. Consequently, new methods deciphering the spatial and temporal interactions …

[HTML][HTML] Drone-based high-resolution tracking of aquatic vertebrates

V Raoult, L Tosetto, JE Williamson - Drones, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Determining the small-scale movement patterns of marine vertebrates usually requires
invasive active acoustic tagging or in-water monitoring, with the inherent behavioural …

Social preferences and network structure in a population of reef manta rays

RJY Perryman, SK Venables, RF Tapilatu… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2019‏ - Springer
Understanding how individual behavior shapes the structure and ecology of populations is
key to species conservation and management. Like many elasmobranchs, manta rays are …

Activity seascapes highlight central place foraging strategies in marine predators that never stop swimming

YP Papastamatiou, YY Watanabe, U Demšar… - Movement Ecology, 2018‏ - Springer
Background Central place foragers (CPF) rest within a central place, and theory predicts that
distance of patches from this central place sets the outer limits of the foraging arena. Many …

What acoustic telemetry can and cannot tell us about fish biology

DMP Jacoby, AT Piper - Journal of Fish Biology, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic telemetry (AT) has become ubiquitous in aquatic monitoring and fish biology,
conservation, and management. Since the early use of active ultrasonic tracking that …

Non-random Co-occurrence of Juvenile White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at Seasonal Aggregation Sites in Southern California

JM Anderson, AJ Clevenstine, BS Stirling… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Many terrestrial and aquatic taxa are known to form periodic aggregations, whether across
life history or solely during specific life stages, that are generally governed by the availability …

Shark research: emerging technologies and applications for the field and laboratory

JC Carrier, MR Heithaus, CA Simpfendorfer - 2018‏ - books.google.com
Over the last decade, the study of shark biology has benefited from the development,
refinement, and rapid expansion of novel techniques and advances in technology. These …

Social dynamics and individual hunting tactics of white sharks revealed by biologging

YP Papastamatiou, J Mourier, T TinHan… - Biology …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Social foraging, where animals forage in groups, takes many forms but is less studied in
marine predators as measuring social associations in the wild is challenging. We used …