Abstract
Daily activity patterns of large and medium-sized mammals based on camera traps data in the Central Forest Nature Reserve, Valdai Upland, Russia
Highlights
The study of the animal activity patterns is an important area of the science of their behaviour (Sokolov & Kuznetsov, 1978; Munro et al, 2006; Yamazaki et al, 2008; Bridges & Noss, 2011; Schai-Braun et al, 2012; Podolski et al, 2013; Lendrum et al, 2017)
Most images were taken from the elk (22.73%), wild boar (18.46%), brown bear (14.78%) and hare (14.69%), while the total share of photos of all large carnivores was 33.91% (Table 1)
In the group of large carnivores, the rhythm of daily activity was markedly distinguished by the wolf, more than half of its registrations were at night, and a third – on the day
Summary
The study of the animal activity patterns is an important area of the science of their behaviour (Sokolov & Kuznetsov, 1978; Munro et al, 2006; Yamazaki et al, 2008; Bridges & Noss, 2011; Schai-Braun et al, 2012; Podolski et al, 2013; Lendrum et al, 2017). For forest-covered and impassable territories of many Russian nature reserves, the most optimal solution is the use of camera traps. This is an effective and accessible tool to study the behaviour and activity of mammals, already tested for many species in the world (Carthew & Slater, 1991; Alexy et al, 2003; Bridges et al, 2004; Claridge et al, 2004; Bridges & Noss, 2011; Crowley et al, 2013; Ikeda et al, 2016; Marcon et al, 2017). For the last ten years camera traps have become widely used in Russia (Rozhnov et al, 2012; Soutyrina et al, 2013; Matyukhina et al, 2016; Ogurtsov & Zheltukhin, 2017; Zaumyslova & Bondarchuk, 2017), but detailed studies of daily activity based on this method are known so far only for badgers (Meles sp.) (Sidorchuk & Rozhnov, 2010; Sidorchuk et al, 2014, 2016)
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