Figure 5.

Mange-induced changes in bare-nosed wombat grazing and inactivity behaviours. Three wombats, one healthy (mange score 0.5), one with ambiguous signs of early mange (mange score 0.57) and one with moderate mange (mange score 2.71), were observed for grazing and inactivity behaviours across four full circadian cycles (days). Each day was composed of 28 800 3 s epochs, and each epoch was assigned to the activity that lasted the majority of the 3 s, giving a total of 345 600 epochs manually scored. Behavioural changes were analysed using three types of data: average number of episodes per activity per 24 h day, average bout duration per activity and proportion (%) of day spent engaging in each activity. Significant differences between values are indicated by labels ‘a’, ‘b’ and ‘c’.