Behavioral correlates of innovation success in facultatively social marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventer</i>)
Abstract
Innovation has transformed ecology and evolution, and understanding behaviors that lead to innovation success can have profound implications and applications in animal populations and human society. In past research, persistence, behavioral selectivity, and neophobia have influenced an individual’s ability to innovate, however the traits that lead to innovation success are not well understood. Exploring these subjects in the socially flexible yellow-bellied marmot can disentangle these factors and reveal which one, if any, influences innovation success. To test innovation correlates in marmots, we will present them with a two-action puzzle box from which they can obtain a food reward, and video their interactions with the box. These videos will be scored for individual behaviors, and the interactions of innovation success, behavioral interactions with the box, and social metrics will be examined. We predict that high degrees of persistence, behavioral selectivity, and neophilia will correlate with innovation success. Previous studies have found correlations between success in novel habitats and innovation success, and because climate change will cause novel habitats, the results of this study can guide conservation management.
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