Prebaiting is a technique involving early deployment of ‘unarmed’ devices (e.g. baits and traps) to increase efficacy of wildlife management. Although commonly used, the mechanisms by which prebaiting works are poorly understood. We propose three mechanisms by which prebaiting may increase device interaction probabilities; (1) overcoming neophobia towards novel devices, (2) a ‘trickle in’ effect increasing time for animals to encounter devices; and (3) social information transfer about rewards associated with devices. We conducted a survey of 100 articles to understand how prebaiting has been used. We then tested our proposed prebaiting mechanisms using a global pest (black rats, Rattus rattus) examining how uniquely marked free-living rats responded to a common yet novel monitoring technique (tracking tunnels).

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对预诱饵的机械理解以改善与野生动物管理设备的互动

预诱饵是一种涉及早期部署“非武装”装置（例如诱饵和陷阱）以提高野生动物管理效率的技术。尽管很常用，但人们对预诱饵工作的机制知之甚少。我们提出了三种预诱饵可以增加设备交互概率的机制；(1) 克服对新设备的新恐惧症，(2) “滴入”效应增加了动物遇到设备的时间；(3) 关于与设备相关的奖励的社交信息传输。我们对 100 篇文章进行了调查，以了解如何使用预诱饵。然后，我们使用全球害虫（黑鼠、Rattus rattus) 研究独特标记的自由生活大鼠如何对常见但新颖的监测技术（跟踪隧道）做出反应。