Table 3 Overall effect of artificial eyespots on survival of cattle from ambush predators.

From: Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores

Predictor Variable

Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic

Df

P value

Overall treatment effect

35.0732

2

2.421e−08***

  1. ***p = <0.001; N = 139 (48 artificial eyespots, 43 cross-marked, 48 unmarked; number of times each treatment was applied to each herd of cattle at each cattle-post). Mixed effects cox regression investigating whether artificial eyespot treatment affects predation by ambush predators (lion and leopard). Cattle-post and cattleID were included as random terms to control for repeated measures, and treatment and herd size were included as covariates.
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