Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype-dependent foraging in free-ranging lizards

Recent evidence suggests that individuals differ in foraging tactics and this variation is often linked to an individual’s behavioural type (BT). Yet, while foraging typically comprises a series of search and handling steps, empirical investigations have rarely considered BT-dependent effects across multiple stages of the foraging process, particularly in natural settings.
In our long-term sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) study system, individuals exhibit behavioural consistency in boldness (measured as an individual’s willingness to approach a novel food item in the presence of a threat) and aggressiveness (measured as an individual’s response to an ‘attack’ by a conspecific dummy). These BTs are only weakly correlated and have previously been shown to have interactive effects on lizard space use and movement, suggesting that they could also affect lizard foraging performance, particularly in their search behaviour for food.
To investigate how lizards’ BTs affect their foraging process i..., The data included in this manusript combines several sources of information from our field site at Bundy Bore, Australia.

The most central dataset for this paper is the lizard visit documentation, obtained by camera-traps recording in a time-lapse mode, the dataset is included here in a cleaned form, after removing irrelevant lines (e.g. non lizard visit) and colunms. 
Behavioral data with repeated assays on individual lizards. This data is included in the recent paper by Payne et al. (2021) Animal Behaviour; as well as in the dataset cited below.
GPS tracking data for estimating Home Range (HR) size for focal lizards. This is used as a predictor in relevant models. HR . Information on the HR results is aviaible in the included dataset and a broader version that includs several years and not only this particualr one was included in Payne et al. (2022) Ecological Monographs
Code for the modeling is included as well, see readme for more details.  
, , # README: Dataset descriptions

#### Orr Spiegel & Marcus Michelangeli

#### 2024-05-20

Below we describe three data sets that were used in the statistical analysis for the paper *Resource manipulation reveals interactive phenotype-dependent foraging in free-ranging lizards* published in *Journal of Animal Ecology*.

These datasets are used in the R script titled **data_analysis_SleepyForaging** which provides R code to reproduce the analysis.

The provided data is cleaned and collated from several raw datasets including GPS data of lizard tracks, camera trap observations, and lizard biometrics. If you would like any of the raw, unprocessed data please contact Orr Spiegel ([[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])) or Marcus Michelangeli ([[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])).

### Brief description of the study design and the type of data collected

We investigated how a lizard’s behavioral type (boldness and aggressiveness), ...