DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3j9kd51qj
title: GPS and activity data from wild boars tracked in Southern France

description: Many animals living in anthropized landscapes try to avoid encountering
 people by being active at night. By doing so, however, they risk being
 disturbed while at rest during the day. To mitigate this risk, diurnally
 resting species may be highly selective about where they rest. Here, we
 used GPS and activity sensors to study how wild boars (Sus scrofa) might
 adjust their resting site selection and revisitation patterns to the risk
 of disturbance by people. We evaluated the probability of daytime
 relocation to assess the efficacy of wild boars' resting strategy in
 reducing the risk of human encounter while at rest. We attempted to
 identify the cause of some relocations using audio recordings. Generally,
 we found that wild boars did not specifically avoid resting near villages
 or roads, i.e. where the risk of encountering people is higher, if they
 could find sites with suitable vegetation cover. The risk of disturbance
 by people was low, even near villages. Resting sites located close to
 villages were visited more repeatedly than those located further away,
 suggesting that focusing on a few familiar and quiet resting sites was a
 successful strategy for resting undisturbed in an anthropized landscape.
description: ## *Hogs sleep like logs: wild boars reduce the risk of anthropic
 disturbance by adjusting where they rest* #### Gustave Fradin\* #### Simon
 Chamaill-Jammes\* ##### \* CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD,
 Montpellier, France --- ## GPS and activity data from wild boars tracked
 in Southern France This archive contains the GPS and activity data that
 was collected from the wild boars studied in the paper. An additional file
 provides information on the deployment of the collars on the animals. ##
 Description of the Data and file structure ####
 GPS\_wild\_boars\_CEFE\_CRNS.csv This file contains the GPS position of
 the animals studied in the paper. There are 7 columns: * ID: a unique
 identifier of individual wild boars * sex: male (M) or female (F). NA if
 unknown. * study_area: identifier of the study site where the animal was
 captured and lived (*Gorges du Gardon* or *Pic St-Loup*). The study sites
 are described in the paper. * acquisition_time_utc: time of the
 acquisition of the GPS position, in UTC. The format that was used is
 DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS. * lat: latitude of the GPS position (WGS84) * long:
 longitude of the GPS position (WGS84) * dop: dilution of precision. Low
 values indicate a good precision, while high values point out less
 accurate positions. #### ACT\_wild\_boars\_CEFE\_CRNS.csv This file
 contains the GPS position of the animals studied in the paper. There are 5
 columns: * ID: a unique identifier of individual wild boars * sex: male
 (M) or female (F). NA if unknown. * study_area: identifier of the study
 site where the animal was captured and lived (*Gorges du Gardon* or *Pic
 St-Loup*). The study sites are described in the paper. *
 acquisition_time_utc: time of the acquisition of the GPS position, in UTC.
 The format that was used is DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS. * ACT: activity level
 along the anteroposterior axis, ranging between 0 (no activity) to 255.
 This value is an average of 8HZ acceleration measurements made over an
 interval of 5 minutes. ####
 deployment\_details\_wild\_boars\_CEFE\_CRNS.csv This file contains the
 GPS position of the animals studied in the paper. There are 8 columns: *
 ID: a unique identifier of individual wild boars * sex: male (M), female
 (F), or unknown (NA). * study_area: identifier of the study site where the
 animal was captured and lived (*Gorges du Gardon* or *Pic St-Loup*). The
 study sites are described in the paper. * deployment_time_utc: time of the
 release of the animal, after the capture, in UTC. The format that was used
 is DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS. * tracking_end_time_utc: time of the end of the
 survey, in UTC. This time was set shortly before the animal was dead or
 the collar was fallen. The format that was used is DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS. *
 reason_end: cause of the en of the survey; death of the animal
 (Mortality), or fall of the collar (Fallen). * detailed_reason_end:more
 detailed cause of the end of the survey. A collar may have fallen on its
 own (Loose_collar), or through the activation of the drop-off system
 (Drop-off). The individual might have been killed by a vehicle
 (Collision_with_vehicle), or by hunters (Hunting). * audio_data: Was audio
 data collected from this animal (using an audiologger; see description in
 the paper). ## Sharing/access Information GPS and activity data was not
 derived from another source.