Behavioral response of captive Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys to noise from different sources
Received date: 2024-11-06
Accepted date: 2025-04-09
Online published: 2025-12-03
Anthropogenic noise reshapes the soundscape of natural environments, causing adverse effects on the behavior, distribution, and vigilance of wildlife. The Guizhou snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi) is one of the most endangered primates globally, inhabiting only the Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve in Guizhou. To investigate the behavioral responses of Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys to different noises, from December 2023 to June 2024, we studied Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys in captivity at the Guizhou Snub-nosed Monkey Research Center. Four types of noise, including traffic noise, tourist noise, rural noise, and avian predator call, were played back with a gradient of noise levels (40 dB, 50 dB, 60 dB, and 70 dB), and behavioral changes of Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys were recorded using focal animal sampling method. The results show that the four types of noise stimuli can cause an increase in vigilance time and a decrease in rest in Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys. The vigilance time tends to increase with the intensity of the noise level, and avoidance phenomenon appears when stimulated with a 60 dB noise level. The difference in vigilance time is significant (P < 0.05) among the different types of noise, and the percentage of the total vigilance time to the avian predator is significantly higher than that to the sound of human noise such as traffic noise, tourist noise and rural noise. Captive Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys have a habituation effect on human noise to which they had been exposed for a long time. This study initially reveals the behavioral response patterns of Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys under different noise interference conditions, which provides a basis for subsequent in-depth research on their behavior, the regulation of human activities, and the formulation of conservation and management measures.
Jiangming WU , Xiaolong HUANG , Shaochuan CHENG , Wei YANG , Xu ZHANG , Jingcheng RAN . Behavioral response of captive Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys to noise from different sources[J]. ACTA THERIOLOGICA SINICA, 2025 , 45(6) : 810 -819 . DOI: 10.16829/j.slxb.151024
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