Nick Gulotta
@nickgulotta-77.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher— UGA Warnell—Individual variation in movement behaviour
Reposted by Nick Gulotta
2025. Testing the human shield hypothesis: Female wild turkeys have greater fitness near human activity - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Testing the human shield hypothesis: Female wild turkeys have greater fitness near human activity
Our findings indicate that human activity can create a protective shield that deters predators and enhances survival and reproduction for prey species of conservation concern. Because habitat work on....
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December 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
2025. Testing the human shield hypothesis: Female wild turkeys have greater fitness near human activity - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Nick Gulotta
Some wild turkeys play it bold, strutting through open fields, while others stick to cover. But it turns out that how predictably they take risks may decide whether they live or become dinner.
Is hunting success making turkeys harder to hunt? - The Wildlife Society
When it comes to staying alive, predictable and bold male turkeys have similar fates
wildlife.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Some wild turkeys play it bold, strutting through open fields, while others stick to cover. But it turns out that how predictably they take risks may decide whether they live or become dinner.
Reposted by Nick Gulotta
Gulotta: hunters tend to kill male turkeys that are more active and unpredictable, natural predators tend to kill those that are less active and more predictable. Potential for hunting-induced selection on behavior. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Harvest and natural predation shape selection for behavioural predictability in male wild turkeys
Male wild turkeys with riskier behavioural types were more predictable in their behavioural expression and more likely to be killed by both hunters and predators. If risk-taking behaviour is heritabl....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Gulotta: hunters tend to kill male turkeys that are more active and unpredictable, natural predators tend to kill those that are less active and more predictable. Potential for hunting-induced selection on behavior. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Testing the human shield hypothesis: Female wild turkeys have greater fitness near human activity - Gulotta - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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January 2, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Testing the human shield hypothesis: Female wild turkeys have greater fitness near human activity - Gulotta - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Harvest and natural predation shape selection for behavioural predictability in male wild turkeys - Gulotta - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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January 2, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Harvest and natural predation shape selection for behavioural predictability in male wild turkeys - Gulotta - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...