From the eye of the albatrosses: a bird-borne camera shows an association between albatrosses and a killer whale in the Southern Ocean.
Albatrosses fly many hundreds of kilometers across the open ocean to find and feed upon their prey. Despite the growing number of studies concerning their foraging behaviour, relatively little is known about how albatrosses actually locate their prey. Here, we present our results from the first depl...
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Main Authors: | Kentaro Q Sakamoto, Akinori Takahashi, Takashi Iwata, Philip N Trathan |
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Language: | EN |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/779f9851a0ec49c1b6f02445f78eb9c7 |
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