Persistence of vigilance and flight response behaviour in wild reindeer with varying domestic ancestry

• Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
• Main Authors: REIMERS, E., RØED, K. H., COLMAN, J. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2012
• Subjects: Norefjell; Norway; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02538.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1420-9101.2012.02538.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02538.x

Abstract Knowledge about changes in behavioural traits related to wildness and tameness is for most mammals lacking, despite the increased trend of using domestic stock to re‐establish wild populations into historical ranges. To test for persistence of behavioural traits of wild reindeer ( Rangifer...