The Use of Stomach Temperature Records for the Calculation of Daily Food Intake in Cormorants
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We present a new method of measuring the food intake in cormorants based on stomach temperature recordings. Stomach temperature loggers were deployed both in captive and in free-living birds. We examine the accuracy of this method and compare it with the standard methods of evaluating food intake by pellet or stomach content analysis.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of experimental biology
دوره 189 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994