Abstract:
:Many studies have focused on the effects of anthropogenic noise on animal communication, but only a few have looked at its effect on other behavioural systems. We designed a playback experiment to test the effect of noise on predation risk assessment. We found that in response to boat motor playback, Caribbean hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus) allowed a simulated predator to approach closer before they hid. Two hypotheses may explain how boat noise affected risk assessment: it masked an approaching predator's sound; and/or it reallocated some of the crabs' finite attention, effectively distracting them, and thus preventing them from responding to an approaching threat. We found no support for the first hypothesis: a silent looming object still got closer during boat motor playbacks than during silence. However, we found support for the attentional hypothesis: when we added flashing lights to the boat motor noise to further distract the hermit crabs, we were able to approach the crabs more closely than with the noise alone. Anthropogenic sounds may thus distract prey and make them more vulnerable to predation.
journal_name
Biol Lettjournal_title
Biology lettersauthors
Chan AA,Giraldo-Perez P,Smith S,Blumstein DTdoi
10.1098/rsbl.2009.1081subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-08-23 00:00:00pages
458-61issue
4eissn
1744-9561issn
1744-957Xpii
rsbl.2009.1081journal_volume
6pub_type
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