Natural sounds alter California ground squirrel, Otospermophilus beecheyi, foraging, vigilance and movement behaviours

Many animals rely on the acoustic environment for functions spanning mate attraction, navigation and predator and prey detection. Growing evidence focused on human-altered acoustic environments suggests that anthropogenic noise can strongly interfere with the reception of biologically relevant sounds, causing a variety of behavioural changes in response to the evolutionarily novel acoustic conditions created by humans. However, little is known...