TY - JOUR
T1 - Leveraging social media and other online data to study animal behavior
AU - Vardi, Reut
AU - Soriano-Redondo, Andrea
AU - Gutiérrez, Jorge S.
AU - Dylewski, Łukasz
AU - Jagiello, Zuzanna
AU - Mikula, Peter
AU - Berger-Tal, Oded
AU - Blumstein, Daniel T.
AU - Jarić, Ivan
AU - Sbragaglia, Valerio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Vardi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2024/8/1
Y1 - 2024/8/1
N2 - The widespread sharing of information on the Internet has given rise to ecological studies that use data from digital sources including digitized museum records and social media posts. Most of these studies have focused on understanding species occurrences and distributions. In this essay, we argue that data from digital sources also offer many opportunities to study animal behavior including long-term and large-scale comparisons within and between species. Following Nikko Tinbergen’s classical roadmap for behavioral investigation, we show how using videos, photos, text, and audio posted on social media and other digital platforms can shed new light on known behaviors, particularly in a changing world, and lead to the discovery of new ones.
AB - The widespread sharing of information on the Internet has given rise to ecological studies that use data from digital sources including digitized museum records and social media posts. Most of these studies have focused on understanding species occurrences and distributions. In this essay, we argue that data from digital sources also offer many opportunities to study animal behavior including long-term and large-scale comparisons within and between species. Following Nikko Tinbergen’s classical roadmap for behavioral investigation, we show how using videos, photos, text, and audio posted on social media and other digital platforms can shed new light on known behaviors, particularly in a changing world, and lead to the discovery of new ones.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002793
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002793
M3 - Article
C2 - 39208351
AN - SCOPUS:85202842796
SN - 1544-9173
VL - 22
JO - PLoS Biology
JF - PLoS Biology
IS - 8
M1 - e3002793
ER -