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Received: JAccepted: JanuPublished: March 9, 2020Ĭopyright: © 2020 Chassagneux et al. PLoS ONE 15(3):Įditor: Ludek Bartos, Institute of Animal Science, CZECH REPUBLIC (2020) Should I stay or should I go? Determinants of immediate and delayed movement responses of female red deer ( Cervus elaphus) to drive hunts. Such knowledge of game movement rates in response to drive hunts may help the development of informed management policy for hunted red deer populations.Ĭitation: Chassagneux A, Calenge C, Marchand P, Richard E, Guillaumat E, Baubet E, et al. Following a drive hunt, red deer remained outside the hunted areas for periods twice as long compared to periods when no hunting occurred (34 hours vs.

However, neither beater/dog densities nor site familiarity influenced the immediate flight decision. Immediate flight responses were less common when drive hunts occurred in areas with dense understorey. A few hours after the hunt, all individuals were located in distant areas (> 2 kilometres) from the hunted area. Red deer responded to drive hunts either by immediately fleeing the hunted area, or by initially remaining before ultimately fleeing after the hunters had departed. We studied 34 hunting events in the National Estate of Chambord (France) and thereby provided a fine-scale characterization of the immediate and delayed movement responses of red deer to drive hunts. We thus investigated red deer movement responses to drive hunts and their causal factors. Indeed, movement decisions of game during hunting may affect the killing success of hunters as well as the subsequent location of surviving animals. The success of these approaches requires in depth knowledge of prey movement. Hunting can be used as a tool for wildlife management, through limitation of population densities and dissuading game from using sensitive areas.