Respuesta diferencial de la Lechucita Vizcachera (Athene cunicularia) a vocalizaciones heteroespecíficas

Alejandro V. Baladrón; Matilde Cavalli; María Susana Bó; Juan Pablo Isacch

doi:10.56178/eh.v38i1.536

Artículos Publicado 14 marzo 2023 https://doi.org/10.56178/eh.v38i1.536

Respuesta diferencial de la Lechucita Vizcachera (Athene cunicularia) a vocalizaciones heteroespecíficas

Athene cunicularia comportamiento riesgo de depredación Vanellus chilensis vocalizaciones de alarma

Alejandro V. Baladrón Grupo Vertebrados, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Funes 3350, Mar del Plata (B7602AYJ), Argentina

Matilde Cavalli Grupo Vertebrados, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Funes 3350, Mar del Plata (B7602AYJ), Argentina

María Susana Bó Grupo Vertebrados, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Funes 3350, Mar del Plata (B7602AYJ), Argentina

Juan Pablo Isacch Grupo Vertebrados, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Funes 3350, Mar del Plata (B7602AYJ), Argentina

Resumen

Para muchas especies de aves las señales auditivas de coespecíficos representan una importante fuente de información sobre la calidad del hábitat, la presencia de recursos, y los riesgos potenciales en su entorno. Algunas especies tienen la capacidad de reconocer e interpretar también las señales de heteroespecíficos, mejorando así su percepción del ambiente. Este es el caso de la Lechucita Vizcachera (Athene cunicularia) que utiliza las vocalizaciones de alarma del Tero (Vanellus chilensis) como indicador de riesgo potencial. Diseña-mos un estudio experimental de campo para determinar si las lechucitas responden diferencialmente al sonido de los teros en relación a otras aves simpátricas. Expusimos a individuos de lechucita a una secuencia aleatoria de sonidos que incluía tres tratamientos: llamadas de alarma de Tero, Cotorra (Myiopsitta monachus) y Hornero (Furnarius rufus), y registramos su respuesta como comportamientos de alerta o relajado. Encontramos una respuesta diferencial de las lechucitas a las vocalizaciones de los teros respecto a las de cotorras y horneros. Esta respuesta se verificó en un mayor tiempo de duración del estado de alerta, un incremento en la frecuencia de eventos de vigilancia, y un mayor tiempo de recuperación hacia el estado relajado después del tratamiento con sonido de tero. La asociación Lechucita Vizcachera-Tero podría responder a una relación de mutuo beneficio, en la cual las lechucitas podrían mejorar su percepción del riesgo de depredación al contar con una alerta temprana y los teros obtendrían un mayor nivel de protección al asociarse con un depredador tope.

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Alejandro V. Baladrón, Matilde Cavalli, María Susana Bó, Juan Pablo Isacch (2023). Respuesta diferencial de la Lechucita Vizcachera (Athene cunicularia) a vocalizaciones heteroespecíficas. El Hornero, Vol. 38 Núm. 1 (2023), 35-43. https://doi.org/10.56178/eh.v38i1.536

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[13] Getschow CM, Rivers P, Sterman S, Lumpkin DC y Tarvin KA (2013) Does Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) response to heterospecific alarm calls depend on familiarity or acoustic similarity? Ethology 119:983–992

[14] Goodale E, Beauchamp G, Magrath RD, Nieh JC y Ruxton GD (2010) Interspecific information transfer influences animal community structure. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:354–361

[15] Haff TM y Magrath RD (2012) Learning to listen? Nestling response to heterospecific alarm calls. Animal Behaviour 84:1401–1410

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[17] Henderson LA y Trulio LA (2019) Can California ground squirrels reduce predation risk to burrowing owls? Journal of Raptor Research 53:172–179

[18] Idoeta FM y Roesler I (2012) Presas consumidas por el Carancho (Caracara plancus) durante el período reproductivo, en el noreste de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Nuestras Aves 57:79–82

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[21] Jones P, Page R, Hartbauer M y Siemers B (2011) Behavioral evidence for eavesdropping on prey song in two Palearctic sibling bat species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65:333–340

[22] Machicote M, Branch LC y Villarreal D (2004) Burrowing owls and burrowing mammals: are ecosystem engineers interchangeable as facilitators? Oikos 106:527–535

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[31] Oniky Y (1986) Nesting of the Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis in São Paulo, Brazil. Avicultural Magazine 92:151–156

[32] de la Peña MR (2016) Aves argentinas: descripción, comportamiento, reproducción y distribución. Charadriidae a Trochilidae. Comunicaciones del Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales (Nueva Serie) 19:1–436

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[36] Rebolo-Ifrán N, Tella JL y Carrete M (2017) Urban conservation hotspots: predation release allows the grassland-specialist Burrowing Owl to perform better in the city. Scientific Reports 7:1–9

[37] Sade S, Rau JR y Orellana JI (2012) Dieta del Quique (Galictis cuja, Molina 1782) en un remanente de bosque valdiviano fragmentado del sur de Chile. Gayana 76:112–116

[38] Soriano A, León RJ, Sala OE, Lavado RS, Deregibus VA, Cauhépé MA, Scaglia OA, Velásquez CA y Lemcoff JH (1991) Río de la Plata grasslands. Pp. 367–407 en: Coupland RT (ed). Natural Grasslands. Elsevier, New York

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