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AUTHOR
José Antonio Sánchez-zapata
Table S1;Table S2;Table S3;Table S4;Figure S1 from Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in neotropical ecosystems
Scavenger species registered in the community. For each of them, we specified the common name, the scientific name and the taxonomic group (i.e., vulture, other bird, mammal or reptile).;Times of first arrival of each species from carcass placement and maximum abundance (i.e., average number of individuals present in each carcass size) of each species separately for large and small carcasses, both represented as the mean and standard deviation, i.e., X̅ ± SD.;Model coefficients for large carcasses by means generalized lineal models (GLMs) showing the influence of the linear predictor (L_ijt) and the biotic predictor (h_ijt: influence of heterospectifics) on each of the scavenging species. T…
Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems
Social information, acquired through the observation of other individuals, is especially relevant among species belonging to the same guild. The unpredictable and ephemeral nature of carrion implies that social mechanisms may be selected among scavenger species to facilitate carcass location and consumption. Here, we apply a survival-modelling strategy to data obtained through the placement and monitoring of carcasses in the field to analyse possible information transmission cascades within a Neotropical scavenger community. Our study highlights how the use of different senses (smell and sight) within this guild facilitates carcass location through the transmission of social information bet…