Testes de efetividade e fixação de nova tecnologia de rastreamento animal

• Autor(a) principal: Marucci, Stephanie Souza [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/156470; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2018-04-26/000898236.pdf
• topic: Ecologia animal; Tucano; Mico-leão-dourado; Ecologia da paisagem; Brasil

An important factor to be considered in anthropic environments is the movement and use of space by animals' species. Disruptions caused by human beings actions could affect the natural regeneration of plant populations. Although there is a great potential for research in the field of movement ecology using native species in Brazil, the telemetry techniques are still in developing stage. This creates imprecision in data collection and, therefore, impacts the results negatively. This research's goal was to test efficiency in measurements and attachment efficacy of a new tracking equipment considering its potential in animal movement studies. The species Ramphastos toco (toco toucan) and Leontopithecus rosalia (golden lion tamarin) were chosen as research subjects. During static tests, the equipment's accuracy was analysed in three different landscapes: i. open field, ii. edge area and iii. dense vegetation. While inspecting the best attachment method tests in captive toco toucans, the vest method (described in this paper) showed considerable results. In field, we tested the 3D printer backpack we developed in partnership with Serendip Techinolgy, which are cheap and take a short time to make. Besides, they are very resistant and the backpacks were considered a good method of attachment in small primates. The malfunctioning of GPS technology equipment is a very common problem in animal movement studies; however, the equipment presented seriously problems of data accuracy. Owing to the very limiting results, we do not recommend the use of the Mataki® equipment until corrections and improvements are made. We hope that this research can shed some light on the importance of previously testing new technologies. With this, the use of new technologies which were not