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 |
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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).