Ecologists find national park tourists offer elk and antelope shelter from predators
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 08:03
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Prey animals, such as elk and pronghorn, are changing their behavior in close proximity to predictable human activity. A new paper published in PLOS ONE by ecologists at Colorado State University provides a novel investigation of the predator shelter hypothesis by exploring how benign and predictable human activity - such as designated recreation areas, parking lots, and roads - affects the feeding and alert behavior of prey species.