Local enhancement and social foraging in a non-social insular lizard

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Ana Pérez-Cembranos, Valentín Pérez-Mellado]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Animal Cognition, 18/3(2015-05-01), 629-637
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a Even in solitary foragers, conspecifics can provide reliable information about food location. The insular lizard Podarcis lilfordi is a solitary species with high population densities that sometimes aggregate around rich food patches. Its diet includes novel and unpredictable resources, such as carcasses or plants, whose exploitation quickly became widespread among the population. We tested the use of social information by lizards through some field experiments in which they had to choose one of the two pieces of fruit. Probably due to local enhancement, lizards preferred to feed on the piece of fruit where conspecifics or lizard-shaped models were already present. Conspecifics' behaviour, but also their mere presence, seems to be a valuable source of information to decide where to feed. Lizards also showed a strong attraction to conspecifics, even in the absence of food. Maybe the presence of a group is interpreted as an indirect cue for the presence of food. The group size was not important to females, but males had a significantly higher attraction towards groups with three conspecifics. We discuss some characteristics of P. lilfordi at Aire Island that can explain the development of the observed social foraging, as well as their possible consequences. 
540 |a Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 
690 7 |a Social information  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Foraging behaviour  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Conspecific attraction  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Islands  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Podarcis lilfordi  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Pérez-Cembranos  |D Ana  |u Department of Animal Biology, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, s/n., 37007, Salamanca, Spain  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Pérez-Mellado  |D Valentín  |u Department of Animal Biology, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, s/n., 37007, Salamanca, Spain  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Pérez-Mellado  |D Valentín  |u Department of Animal Biology, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, s/n., 37007, Salamanca, Spain  |4 aut 
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