Visual marking in mammals first proved by manipulations of brown bear tree debarking
The rather limited human ability to understand animal vision and visual signalling has frequently clouded our expectations concerning the visual abilities of other animals. But there are multiple reasons to suspect that visual signalling is more widely employed by animals than previously thought. Be...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/240987 2024-02-11T10:09:19+01:00 Visual marking in mammals first proved by manipulations of brown bear tree debarking Penteriani, Vincenzo González-Bernardo, Enrique Hartasánchez, Alfonso Ruiz-Villar, Héctor Morales-González, Ana Ordiz, Andrés Bombieri, Giulia Díaz García, Juan Cañedo, David Bettega, Chiara Delgado, María del Mar 2021-05-14 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/240987 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88472-5 en eng Nature Publishing Group Publisher's version https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88472-5 Sí Scientific Reports 11: 9492 (2021) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/240987 doi:10.1038/s41598-021-88472-5 33947891 open artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2021 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88472-5 2024-01-16T11:08:40Z The rather limited human ability to understand animal vision and visual signalling has frequently clouded our expectations concerning the visual abilities of other animals. But there are multiple reasons to suspect that visual signalling is more widely employed by animals than previously thought. Because visibility of visual marks depends on the background in which they are seen, species spending most of their time living in dark conditions (e.g., in forests and/or having crepuscular and nocturnal habits) may rely on bright signals to enhance visual display. Here, as a result of experimental manipulations, we present, for the frst time ever, evidence supporting the use of a new channel of intraspecifc communication by a mammal species, i.e., brown bear Ursus arctos adult males relying on visual marks during mating. Bear reactions to our manipulation suggest that visual signalling could represent a widely overlooked mechanism in mammal communication, which may be more broadly employed than was previously thought Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Scientific Reports 11 1 |
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The rather limited human ability to understand animal vision and visual signalling has frequently clouded our expectations concerning the visual abilities of other animals. But there are multiple reasons to suspect that visual signalling is more widely employed by animals than previously thought. Because visibility of visual marks depends on the background in which they are seen, species spending most of their time living in dark conditions (e.g., in forests and/or having crepuscular and nocturnal habits) may rely on bright signals to enhance visual display. Here, as a result of experimental manipulations, we present, for the frst time ever, evidence supporting the use of a new channel of intraspecifc communication by a mammal species, i.e., brown bear Ursus arctos adult males relying on visual marks during mating. Bear reactions to our manipulation suggest that visual signalling could represent a widely overlooked mechanism in mammal communication, which may be more broadly employed than was previously thought Peer reviewed |
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Penteriani, Vincenzo González-Bernardo, Enrique Hartasánchez, Alfonso Ruiz-Villar, Héctor Morales-González, Ana Ordiz, Andrés Bombieri, Giulia Díaz García, Juan Cañedo, David Bettega, Chiara Delgado, María del Mar |
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Penteriani, Vincenzo González-Bernardo, Enrique Hartasánchez, Alfonso Ruiz-Villar, Héctor Morales-González, Ana Ordiz, Andrés Bombieri, Giulia Díaz García, Juan Cañedo, David Bettega, Chiara Delgado, María del Mar Visual marking in mammals first proved by manipulations of brown bear tree debarking |
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Penteriani, Vincenzo González-Bernardo, Enrique Hartasánchez, Alfonso Ruiz-Villar, Héctor Morales-González, Ana Ordiz, Andrés Bombieri, Giulia Díaz García, Juan Cañedo, David Bettega, Chiara Delgado, María del Mar |
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Visual marking in mammals first proved by manipulations of brown bear tree debarking |
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Visual marking in mammals first proved by manipulations of brown bear tree debarking |
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Visual marking in mammals first proved by manipulations of brown bear tree debarking |
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Visual marking in mammals first proved by manipulations of brown bear tree debarking |
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