Captive birds exhibit greater foraging efficiency and vigilance after anti-predator training

Rearing animals in captivity for conservation translocation is a complex undertaking that demands interdisciplinary management tactics. The maladapted behaviors that captive animals can develop create unique problems for wildlife managers seeking to release these animals into the wild. Often, released captive animals show decreased survival due to predation and their inability to display appropriate anti-predator, vigilance, and risk-analysis behaviors. Additionally, released animals may have poor foraging skills, further increasing their vulnerability to predation. Often conservation translocation programs use anti-predator training to ameliorate these maladapted behaviors before release but find mixed results in behavioral responses. The behavioral scope of analyzing the effect of anti-predator trainings is frequently narrow; the effect of this training on an animal’s risk-analysis competency, or ability to assess the predation risk of a foraging patch and subsequently adjust its beha..., , , # Captive birds exhibit greater foraging efficiency and vigilance after anti-predator training

Descriptions of data in each column are below. Time is measured in seconds.

numer ID – individual bird number

safe_before – time spent in a safe zone before treatment

mid_before – time spent in mid-zone before treatment

dang_before – time spent in the danger zone before treatment

safe_after – time spent in a safe zone after treatment

mid_after – time spent in mid zone after treatment

dang_after – time spent in danger zone after treatment

TotVig1_before – total vigilance at scan 1 before treatment

TotVig2_before – total vigilance at scan 2 before treatment

TotVig3_before – total vigilance at scan 3 before treatment

TV1_after - total vigilance at scan 1 after treatment

TV2_after - total vigilance at scan 2 after treatment

TV3_after - total vigilance at scan 3 after treatment

TF1_b – time foraging at scan 1 before treatment

TF2_b – time foraging at scan 2 before treatment

TF3_b –...