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Le Maho Yvon, Whittington Jason D, Hanuise Nicolas, Pereira Louise, Boureau Matthieu, Brucker Mathieu, Chatelain Nicolas, Courtecuisse Julien, Crenner Francis, Friess Benjamin, Grosbellet Edith, Kernaléguen Laëtitia, Olivier Frédérique, Saraux Claire, Vetter Nathanaël, Viblanc Vincent A, Thierry Bernard, Tremblay Pascale, Groscolas René, Le Bohec Céline, |
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Rovers minimize human disturbance in research on wild animals.
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2014 |
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Nature methods |
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Nat. Methods |
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11 |
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12 |
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1242-4 |
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Adaptation, Psychological, Animals, Animals, Wild, Behavior, Animal, Heart Rate, Heart Rate: physiology, Human Activities, Humans, Robotics, Spheniscidae, Spheniscidae: physiology, Stress, Physiological, |
| Abstract |
Investigating wild animals while minimizing human disturbance remains an important methodological challenge. When approached by a remote-operated vehicle (rover) which can be equipped to make radio-frequency identifications, wild penguins had significantly lower and shorter stress responses (determined by heart rate and behavior) than when approached by humans. Upon immobilization, the rover-unlike humans-did not disorganize colony structure, and stress rapidly ceased. Thus, rovers can reduce human disturbance of wild animals and the resulting scientific bias.
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Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. |
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1548-7091 |
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