Managing vertebrate pests is a global conservation challenge given their undesirable socio-ecological impacts. Pest management often focuses on the ‘average’ individual, neglecting individual-level behavioural variation (‘personalities’) and differences in life histories. These differences affect pest impacts and modify attraction to, or avoidance of, sensory cues. Strategies targeting the average individual may fail to mitigate damage by ‘rogues’ (individuals causing disproportionate impact) or to target ‘recalcitrants’ (individuals avoiding standard control measures). Effective management leverages animal behaviours that relate primarily to four core motivations: feeding, fleeing, fighting, and fornication. Management success could be greatly increased by identifying and exploiting individual variation in motivations. We provide explicit suggestions for cue-based tools to manipulate these four motivators, thereby improving pest management outcomes.

鉴于其有害的社会生态影响，管理脊椎动物有害生物是一项全球性的保护挑战。害虫管理通常关注“普通”个体，而忽略个体水平的行为变异（“个性”）和生活史差异。这些差异影响有害生物的影响，并改变对感官线索的吸引或避免。针对普通个人的策略可能无法减轻“流氓”（造成不成比例的影响的个人）造成的损害，也无法针对“顽固的人”（避免采用标准控制措施的个人）。有效的管理利用了与四个主要动机有关的动物行为：进食，出逃，战斗和通奸。通过识别和利用动机的个体差异，可以极大地提高管理成功率。