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. 2013 Dec 20;8(12):e84970. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084970

Table 1. Effects of time period, type of playback and their interaction on the proportion of time spent in vigilance, the bite rate, the step rate, the time spent in vigilance while chewing and the time spent in exclusive vigilance, controlling for the effects of date, group size, distance to cover, and grass height.

Activity  Variables numDF   denDF   F-value   p-value Coeff ± SE
Vigilance (Intercept) 1 100 614.309 < 0.001 0.288 ± 0.022
Time period 1 100 0.028 0.867 See Table 2
Playback 2 42 3.628 0.035 See Table 2
Time period × Playback 2 100 4.631 0.012 See Table 2
Bite rate (Intercept) 1 92 2819.501 < 0.001 69.279 ± 7.693
Time period 1 92 14.795 < 0.001 See Table 2
Playback 2 42 1.750 0.186 See Table 2
Time period × Playback 2 92 3.107 0.049 See Table 2
Step rate (Intercept) 1 84 235.305 < 0.001 1.104 ± 0.145
Time period 1 84 4.194 0.044 See Table 2
Playback 2 41 2.113 0.134 See Table 2
Time period × Playback 2 84 6.560 0.002 See Table 2
Vigilance while chewing (Intercept) 1 75 891.392 <.0001 0.983 ± 0.061
Time period 1 75 1.7833 0.1858 See Table 3
Playback 2 48 0.8319 0.4414 See Table 3
Time period × Playback 2 75 5.2121 0.0076 See Table 3
Df LRT p-value Coeff ± SE
Exclusive vigilance Time period 1 18.505 < 0.001 See Table 3
Playback 2 69.941 < 0.001 See Table 3
Time period × Playback 2 13.804 0.001 See Table 3

The proportion of time spent in vigilance was ArcSinSqRoot transformed and step rate and the time spent in vigilance while chewing were log-transformed. See Tables S1, S2, S3 and S4 for details on factors that were controlled for. The pre-playback period and the control playback were used as references for the time period and playback variables, respectively. Vigilance, bite rate, step rate and vigilance while chewing were analyzed using linear mixed-effects models and exclusive vigilance using zero inflated Poisson mixed-effects models (see methods).