2017
Complexity in behavioural organization and strongylid infection among wild chimpanzees
BURGUNDER, Jade, Barbora PAFCO, Klara J. PETRZELKOVA, David MODRY, Chie HASHIMOTO et. al.Základní údaje
Originální název
Complexity in behavioural organization and strongylid infection among wild chimpanzees
Autoři
BURGUNDER, Jade (250 Francie, garant, domácí), Barbora PAFCO (203 Česká republika), Klara J. PETRZELKOVA (203 Česká republika), David MODRY (203 Česká republika), Chie HASHIMOTO (392 Japonsko) a Andrew J. J. MACINTOSH (392 Japonsko)
Vydání
Animal Behaviour, London, ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017, 0003-3472
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
10614 Behavioral sciences biology
Stát vydavatele
Velká Británie a Severní Irsko
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Impakt faktor
Impact factor: 3.067
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14310/17:00100362
Organizační jednotka
Přírodovědecká fakulta
UT WoS
000405821200028
Klíčová slova anglicky
behavioural complexity; chimpanzees; fractal analysis; health monitoring; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii; strongylid infection
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 21. 1. 2020 09:51, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.
Anotace
V originále
Objectively measuring the effects of parasitism on animal health is challenging, especially in the wild. Analyses of behavioural organization are increasingly used for this purpose, to identify animals in pathological or otherwise challenged states. Here, we investigated the possible impact of gastrointestinal helminth infection on the behaviour of wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, by applying fractal analysis to their feeding patterns. We predicted that higher intensity of strongylid infection should be associated with altered organizational complexity in temporal sequences of behaviour. We observed 15 habituated male chimpanzees in Kalinzu Reserve Forest, Uganda, and collected behavioural time series via focal animal sampling. We quantified the number of strongylid eggs per gram of faecal sediment using a modified simple sedimentation method to estimate the intensity of infection with strongylid nematodes. We used detrended fluctuation analysis ( DFA) to explore long-range dependence in binary sequences of feeding behaviour as an index of organizational complexity along a stochastic-deterministic gradient. We then built several generalized linear mixed models to examine the relationship between behavioural organization and strongylid infection. Our results indicate that chimpanzee feeding sequences are long-range dependent and antipersistent, i.e. short bouts tended to be followed by long bouts and vice versa. Furthermore, the complexity of chimpanzee feeding sequences and the intensity of infection with strongylid nematodes were positively related: individuals with more intense infections exhibited more stochastic feeding sequences. In contrast, more conventional analyses did not reveal any relationship between parasitism and chimpanzee behaviour, nor did a survival analysis find variation in the probability of switching between behaviour states across chimpanzees with varying infection phenotypes. This work suggests that strongylid nematodes do pose a challenge for wild chimpanzees, manifest as altered organizational complexity in behaviour sequences, and provides further evidence that fractal analyses can have a valuable role in animal health monitoring.