FID, location, and social data of tagged females ibex in the Negev Desert

Abstract The expanding human population has resulted in increased human-wildlife interactions, promoting tolerance towards humans in some species. Such tolerance enables some wildlife populations to inhabit urban habitats but can also lead to human-wildlife conflict. To better understand the proximate drivers of tolerance to humans, we examined the tolerance behaviour of two populations of the threatened Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) within human settlements. We specifically explored the drivers of individual-level variation in tolerance behaviour within populations and linked it to the social interactions and spatial microhabitat use of each individual. We repeatedly measured flight initiation distance (FID) in response to human and human-dog approaches in 29 tagged female ibex from the two populations in the Negev desert, Israel. We performed social network analyses and calculated the spatial overlap of individual home ranges inside the settlements.The data files contains: fid_data : Flight initiation distance (FID) measures of 29 tagged females ibex inside and outside two urban areas - Mitzpe Ramon (MR) and Midreshet Ben Gurion (MBG) - when a human, and a human with a dog approached them. gps_data : GPS location of 8 tagged females ibex in two urban areas - - Mitzpe Ramon (MR) and Midreshet Ben Gurion (MBG). social_network_data : Social data from observation. The number of times 2 tagged female ibex were observed together in the same group.