ArticleScientific reports2019
Hunters select for behavioral traits in a large carnivore.
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- The role of human hunters and natural predators in shaping the selection of behavioural types in male wild turkeys.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
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- Behavioural responses of brown bears to roads and hunting disturbance.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Effects of lethal management on gray wolf pack persistence and reproduction in Wisconsin, USA.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Individual behaviour, growth, survival and vulnerability to hunting in a large mammal.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Coupled social and ecological change drove the historical extinction of the California grizzly bear (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Landscape of fear or landscape of food? Moose hunting triggers an antipredator response in brown bears.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2023Article
- Artificial selection in human-wildlife feeding interactions.The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Article
- Harvest is associated with the disruption of social and fine-scale genetic structure among matrilines of a solitary large carnivore.Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
- The Role of Animal Cognition in Human-Wildlife Interactions.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild.Movement ecology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Human harvest can induce selection on life history and morphological traits, leading to ecological and evolutionary responses. Our understanding of harvest-induced selection on behavioral traits is, however, very limited. Here, we assessed whether hunters harvest, consciously or not, individuals with specific behavioral traits. We used long-term, detailed behavioral and survival data of a heavily harvested brown bear (Ursus arctos) population in Sweden. We found that hunters harvested male bears that were less active during legal hunting hours and had lower movement rates. Also, hunters harvested male and female bears that used habitats closer to roads. We provide an empirical example that individual behavior can modulate vulnerability to hunting and that hunters could exert a selective pressure on wildlife behaviors. This study increases our understanding of the complex interactions between harvest method, human behavior, and animal behavior that are at play in harvest-induced selection and provides better insight into the full effects of human harvest on wild populations.
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