the activity budget hypothesis

The activity budget hypothesis proposes that the main force driving sexual segregation is the difference in activity between males and females. Recently, a model was developed to demonstrate explicitly that such differences in activity could, in theory, produce sexual segregation (Ruckstuhl & Kokko 2002, Animal Behaviour, 64, 909-914).

Our study showed that the only hypothesis that has the potential to be used as a general explanation for social sexual segregation in ungulates is the activity budget hypothesis. A recent study on desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) by Mooring et al. (2003) claims that the activity budget hypothesis does not explain social ...

The activity budget hypothesis states that females are less efficient at digesting high-fiber forage than males owing to a smaller stomach, body size, mouth size, and metabolic allometry (Ruckstuhl 1998).Females need higher quality food compared to males, and they need to spend a longer time feeding, while large body-sized males are able to eat lower quality food, which is more available and ...

They predicted that "the activity budget hypothesis would fail to explain sex- ual segregation if males and females showed the same activity patterns but lived segregated. . ." (Ruckstuhl & Neuhaus, 2002: p. 80). This is, in fact, one of the conclusions of our study (Mooring et al., 2003).

The activity budget hypothesis is based on two main assumptions: (1) that differences in body size result in activity budget differences, and conse-quently activity asynchrony, and (2) that activity asynchrony causes mixed-body size groups to be less cohesive than same-body size groups, which

The activity budget hypothesis proposes that the main force driving sexual segregation is the difference in activity between males and females. Recently, a model was developed to demonstrate explicitly that such differences in activity could, in theory, produce sexual segregation (Ruckstuhl & Kokko 2002, Animal Behaviour, 64, 909-914). The ...

Here we tested the assumptions and predictions of the activity-budget hypothesis using 40 Soay sheep (Ovis aries) as the model species in a 2.3-ha experimental arena. Sheep were divided into treatment groups to test the effect of sex, body mass, and food supplementation in their activity budgets, behavioral synchronization, diet composition ...

The activity budget hypothesis states that sexually size-dimorphic males and females segregate into different groups due to incompatibilities in activity budgets and movement rates. We collected ...

The activity budget hypothesis predicts that with increasing dimorphism in body size males and females will increasingly differ in the time spent in different activities. Differences in activity budgets would make it difficult for males and females to stay in mixed-sex groups due to increased costs of synchrony to maintain group cohesion. The ...

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Comments on an article by Mooring et al. (see record 2003-05068-003). A recent study on desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) by Mooring et al. claims that the activity budget hypothesis does not explain social segregation in their study population. This is a very important claim since if this were true, recent advances in the understanding of social organization in ungulates would ...

In red deer, the activity budget hypothesis was found to play only a contributing role in sexual segregation (Loe et al. 2006). Yearsley and Pérez-Barbería (2005) also concluded from their model of 144 species of ungulates that the activity budget hypothesis is unlikely to be the main factor driving segregation. If similar-sized ruminants are ...

The activity budget hypothesis contributes to the multiple hypotheses proposed to explain the phenomenon of sexual segregation, and it is believed that the issues raised by Neuhaus & Ruckstuhl have implications beyond the specific context of the study. Neuhaus & Ruckstuhl (2004), in a rather vitriolic critique, claim that the primary weakness of our study of desert bighorn sheep, Ovis ...

We tested the activity budget hypothesis which predicts that similar-sized individuals should have similar activity budgets, while dissimilarly sized individuals should differ in their behaviours. We studied African oryx (Oryx gazella (L., 1758)), which are size-monomorphic, to investigate how age, sex, or reproductive state affect their ...

"IS THE ACTIVITY BUDGET HYPOTHESIS THE HOLY GRAIL OF SEXUAL SEGREGATION?" published on 01 Jan 2004 by Brill.

The activity budget hypothesis is 1 of 4 main hypotheses proposed to explain sexual segregation by large herbivores. Because of their smaller body size, females are predicted to have higher mass-specific energy requirements and lower digestive efficiency than males. As a result, females are expected to forage longer to satisfy their nutritional ...

The activity budget hypothesis also predicts that groups will be formed by animals with similar activity budgets. So, the males and females would separate to aggregate in same-sex groups, respectively, to keep behavioral synchrony (Ruckstuhl 1998, 2006). Some studies support the activity budget hypothesis (Conradt 1998; Ruckstuhl and Kokko 2002 ...

To test this hypothesis, we studied the activity budget of Asiatic ibex in the autumn of 2005. According to the activity budget hypothesis, females should spend more time feeding than the males, and the degree of activity synchronization should be higher in same-sex groups than in mixed-sex groups. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis.

The activity budget was then estimated by calculating the sums of the durations for the different activity states and dividing them by the total duration of the time series (i.e., 1h). Doing this for every simulation resulted in a density distribution of the relative proportion for each activity state in the activity budgets, both for control ...

A Field Test of the Activity Budget Hypothesis: The Case of Blue Sheep in Helan Mountains of Ningxia, China @article{Liu2017AFT, title={A Field Test of the Activity Budget Hypothesis: The Case of Blue Sheep in Helan Mountains of Ningxia, China}, author={Zhensheng Liu and Hui Gao and Jiapeng Dong and Mingming Zhang and Liwei Teng}, journal ...

each set of hypothesis tests we controlled the overall level of significance at 0.05 using the Bonferroni procedure. Results Activity budget We followed three orangutans for a combined total of 252 hours (84 hours per individual). As shown in Table 1 and Figure 3, their activity budgets were dominated by resting (60%),

Part 4: Develop a research question, hypothesis and prediction; Part 5. Find a primary literature article related to your hypothesis; Field Lab 2: Ethograms and activity budgets. Part 1. Build an ethogram from meerkat observations; Part 2. Focal versus scan sampling; Part 3. Focal sampling and inter-observer reliability; Part 4.

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activity budget hypothesis were tested: (1) that males should spend less time feeding and more time resting than females in single-sex groups and (2) that lower activity synchrony should be observed in mixed-sex. compared to single-sex groups. The activity budget and. synchrony in mixed and single-sex groups of merino.

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