Title:
Time of day predicts the activity budget in the Emerald Tree Boa (Boidae: Corallus batesii) across multiple behaviors
Time of day predicts the activity budget in the Emerald Tree Boa (Boidae: Corallus batesii) across multiple behaviors
| dc.contributor.advisor | Goodisman, Michael | |
| dc.contributor.author | Berry, Savannah Margaret | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Mendelson, Joseph | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Weigel, Emily | |
| dc.contributor.department | Biology | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-30T17:37:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-30T17:37:08Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2020-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-05 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2020 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2021-06-30T17:37:08Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Exploring the spatial ecology and behavior of organisms is essential to understand an organism’s niche and how to better accommodate animals that are kept in captivity (Ross et al., 2011; Plowman, 2003). Emerald Tree Boas (Corallus batesii) are commonly kept as pets and are important predators in the Amazon; however, despite their commercial exploitation and ecological importance, little is known about their behavior. This paper attempts to fill this literature gap by quantifying the behavior of a juvenile Corallus batesii. The activity budget of the snake was video recorded over a period of three months and was coded using the event logging software, BORIS (Friard & Gamba, 2016). After conducting individual regression analyses on five behaviors (hunting, moving, resting, other: stationary, and out of view), it was found that time of day significantly predicted the behaviors of hunting (p=0.0178, df=23, t=8.50) and resting (p=0.00337, df=23, t=3.52). Hunting behavior was observed between the hours of 2200 h and 700 h and resting between 800 h and 2100 h. | |
| dc.description.degree | Undergraduate | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/64839 | |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| dc.subject | Activity budget | |
| dc.subject | Behavior, Tree boa | |
| dc.subject | Resting | |
| dc.subject | hunting | |
| dc.title | Time of day predicts the activity budget in the Emerald Tree Boa (Boidae: Corallus batesii) across multiple behaviors | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Undergraduate Thesis | |
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| local.contributor.advisor | Goodisman, Michael | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Sciences | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Biological Sciences | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Undergraduate Research Option Theses | |
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| thesis.degree.level | Undergraduate |