Greggor Alison L, de Silva Shermin, Brown Culum, Jesmer Brett R, Noble Daniel W A, Mueller Thomas, Ruiz-Miranda Carlos R, Rutz Christian, Scott Sarah Elizabeth, Williams James
Conservation Science Wildlife Health, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Escondido, CA, USA.
Ecology Behavior and Evolution, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2025 May;380(1925):20240138. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2024.0138. Epub 2025 May 1.
Conservation translocations are increasingly used in species' recovery. Their success often depends upon maintaining or restoring survival-relevant behaviour, which is socially learned in many animals. A lack of species- or population-appropriate learning can lead to the loss of adaptive behaviour, increasing the likelihood of negative human interactions and compromising animals' ability to migrate, exploit resources, avoid predators, integrate into wild populations, reproduce and survive. When applied well, behavioural tools can address deficiencies in socially learned behaviours and boost survival. However, their use has been uneven between species and translocation programmes, and behaviour commonly contributes to translocation failure. Critically, current international guidance (e.g. the International Union for Conservation of Nature's translocation guidelines) does not directly discuss social learning or its facilitation. We argue that linking knowledge about social learning to appropriate translocation strategies will enhance guidance and direct future research. We offer a framework for incorporating animal social learning into translocation planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation across wild and captive settings. Our recommendations consider barriers practitioners face in contending with logistics, time constraints and intervention cost. We emphasize that stronger links between researchers, translocation practitioners and wildlife agencies would increase support for social learning research, and improve the perceived relevance and feasibility of facilitating social learning.This article is part of the theme issue 'Animal culture: conservation in a changing world'.
保护转移越来越多地用于物种恢复。其成功往往取决于维持或恢复与生存相关的行为，而这种行为在许多动物中是通过社会学习获得的。缺乏适合物种或种群的学习可能导致适应性行为的丧失，增加负面人类互动的可能性，并损害动物的迁移、利用资源、躲避捕食者、融入野生种群、繁殖和生存的能力。如果应用得当，行为工具可以弥补社会学习行为的不足并提高生存率。然而，它们在不同物种和转移计划中的使用并不均衡，行为问题通常会导致转移失败。至关重要的是，当前的国际指南（例如国际自然保护联盟的转移指南）并未直接讨论社会学习或其促进方法。我们认为，将关于社会学习的知识与适当的转移策略联系起来将加强指导并指导未来的研究。我们提供了一个框架，用于将动物社会学习纳入野生和圈养环境中的转移规划、实施、监测和评估。我们的建议考虑了从业者在应对后勤、时间限制和干预成本方面面临的障碍。我们强调，研究人员、转移从业者和野生动物机构之间更紧密的联系将增加对社会学习研究的支持，并提高促进社会学习的感知相关性和可行性。本文是主题为“动物文化：变化世界中的保护”的一部分。
