TY  - JOUR
AU  - Le Maho Yvon, Whittington Jason D.
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Rovers minimize human disturbance in research on wild animals.
T2  - Nat. Methods
JO  - Nature methods
SP  - 1242-4
VL  - 11
IS  - 12
PB  - Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.
KW  - Adaptation
KW  - Psychological
KW  - Animals
KW  - Wild
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Animal
KW  - Heart Rate
KW  - Heart Rate: physiology
KW  - Human Activities
KW  - Humans
KW  - Robotics
KW  - Spheniscidae
KW  - Spheniscidae: physiology
KW  - Stress
KW  - Physiological
KW  -
N2  - 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.
SN  - 1548-7091
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3173
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ID  - LeMahoYvon2014
ER  -