Dangerous dive cycles and the proverbial ostrich
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Dangerous dive cycles and the proverbial ostrich
Data rarely are available to address the level of predation risk faced by diving animals in different parts of the water column. Consequently, most published research on diving behaviour implicitly assumes like the proverbial ostrich that ‘unseen’ predators are functionally unimportant. We argue that failure to consider diving in a predation risk framework may have precluded many insights into ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oikos
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0030-1299,1600-0706
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15766.x