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E-Artikel
Titel:
Quantifying allo-grooming in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) using tri-axial acceleration data and machine learning
Beteiligte:
Christensen, Charlotte;
Bracken, Anna M.;
O'Riain, M. Justin;
Fehlmann, Gaëlle;
Holton, Mark;
Hopkins, Phillip;
King, Andrew J.;
Fürtbauer, Ines
Erschienen:
The Royal Society, 2023
Erschienen in:
Royal Society Open Science, 10 (2023) 4
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1098/rsos.221103
ISSN:
2054-5703
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Beschreibung:
Quantification of activity budgets is pivotal for understanding how animals respond to changes in their environment. Social grooming is a key activity that underpins various social processes with consequences for health and fitness. Traditional methods use direct (focal) observations to calculate grooming rates, providing systematic but sparse data. Accelerometers, in contrast, can quantify activity budgets continuously but have not been used to quantify social grooming. We test whether grooming can be accurately identified using machine learning (random forest model) trained on labelled acceleration data from wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). We successfully identified giving and receiving grooming with high precision (81% and 91%) and recall (87% and 79%). Giving grooming was associated with a distinct rhythmical signal along the surge axis. Receiving grooming had similar acceleration signals to resting, and thus was more difficult to assign. We applied our machine learning model ton= 680 collar data days fromn= 12 baboons and found that grooming rates obtained from accelerometers were significantly and positively correlated with direct observation rates for giving but not receiving grooming. The ability to collect continuous grooming data in wild populations will allow researchers to re-examine and expand upon long-standing questions regarding the formation and function of grooming bonds.