Complexity in behavioural organization and strongylid infection
among wild chimpanzees

J 2017

Complexity in behavioural organization and strongylid infection among wild chimpanzees

BURGUNDER, Jade, Barbora PAFCO, Klara J. PETRZELKOVA, David MODRY, Chie HASHIMOTO et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Complexity in behavioural organization and strongylid infection among wild chimpanzees

Authors

BURGUNDER, Jade (250 France, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Barbora PAFCO (203 Czech Republic), Klara J. PETRZELKOVA (203 Czech Republic), David MODRY (203 Czech Republic), Chie HASHIMOTO (392 Japan) and Andrew J. J. MACINTOSH (392 Japan)

Edition

Animal Behaviour, London, ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017, 0003-3472

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10614 Behavioral sciences biology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.067

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00100362

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.06.002

UT WoS

000405821200028

Keywords in English

behavioural complexity; chimpanzees; fractal analysis; health monitoring; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii; strongylid infection

Abstract

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.

Citovat

BURGUNDER, Jade, Barbora PAFCO, Klara J. PETRZELKOVA, David MODRY, Chie HASHIMOTO and Andrew J. J. MACINTOSH. Complexity in behavioural organization and strongylid infection among wild chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour. London: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017, vol. 129, JUL, p. 257-268. ISSN 0003-3472. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.06.002.

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BURGUNDER, Jade, Barbora PAFCO, Klara J. PETRZELKOVA, David MODRY, Chie HASHIMOTO and Andrew J. J. MACINTOSH. Complexity in behavioural organization and strongylid infection among wild chimpanzees. \textit{Animal Behaviour}. London: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017, vol.~129, JUL, p.~257-268. ISSN~0003-3472. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.06.002.

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