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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Ecological Exposure History Shapes Giraffe Vigilance Responses to Anthropogenic Noise: A Multisite Playback Experiment.

Kaitlyn Taylor, Sean van der Merwe, Francois Deacon, Andri Grobbelaar, Anton Baotic

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Differential weighting of lion vocalizations and oxpecker alarm calls in giraffes.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kaitlyn TaylorDepartment of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences University of the Free State Bloemfontein South Africa.
Sean van der MerweDepartment of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science University of the Free State Bloemfontein South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8623-8639
Francois DeaconDepartment of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences University of the Free State Bloemfontein South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6500-4625
Andri GrobbelaarDepartment of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences University of the Free State Bloemfontein South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9105-2273
Anton BaoticAcoustics Research Institute Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7881-857X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anthropogenic noise is an increasingly pervasive environmental stressor for wildlife, yet its behavioral impacts on large mammals remain poorly understood. Across the genus

Indexed as

anthropogenic noisebioacousticsgiraffeplayback experimentsensory ecologyvigilance behavior

Identifiers

PMID41426618
PMCPMC12711595

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