When cormorants go fishing: the differing costs of hunting for sedentary and motile prey
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When cormorants go fishing: the differing costs of hunting for sedentary and motile prey.
Cormorants hunt both benthic (sedentary) and pelagic (motile) prey but it is not known if the energy costs of foraging on these prey differ. We used respirometry to measure the costs of diving in double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) foraging either for sedentary (fish pieces) or motile (juvenile salmon) prey in a deep dive tank. Short dives for sedentary prey were more expensive th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0121