Lifting the Veil of Darkness: Thermal Technology Facilitates Collection of Flight‐Initiation Distances by Night
Anthony R Rendall, Roan D Plotz, Kaori Yokochi, Joel Krauss, Aaron Pengelly, Sam A Di Stefano, Sarah Swindell, Kithsiri Ranawana, Dulan R Vidanapathirana, Michael A Weston · 2024
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Description
Anthony Rendall and co-authors measure animal escape at night in a 2024 paper. Flight-initiation distance tells how close a threat can get before an animal flees. The method was built for day-active birds, since light is needed to watch animals. Light itself can change behavior, so night species were hard to study.
Thermal cameras solve that problem, the team shows. They give a full method, report night distances for birds and mammals, and compare day and night values. The known link between escape distance and starting distance holds at night too. Most species need twenty-five to fifty samples for a solid reading.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anthony R Rendall, Roan D Plotz, Kaori Yokochi, Joel Krauss, Aaron Pengelly, Sam A Di Stefano, Sarah Swindell, Kithsiri Ranawana, Dulan R Vidanapathirana, Michael A Weston |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |