ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Albatrosses can memorize locations of predictable fishing boats but favour natural foraging.
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- Whole-genome Analyses Reveal Past Population Fluctuations and Low Genetic Diversities of the North Pacific Albatrosses.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Wild cognition - linking form and function of cognitive abilities within a natural context.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2022Article
- Prey encounters and spatial memory influence use of foraging patches in a marine central place forager.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Differential equation model for central-place foragers with memory: implications for bumble bee crop pollination.Journal of mathematical biology · 2021Article
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- Albatrosses can memorize locations of predictable fishing boats but favour natural foraging.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Human activities generate food attracting many animals worldwide, causing major conservation issues. The spatio-temporal predictability of anthropogenic resources could reduce search costs for animals and mediate their attractiveness. We investigated this through GPS tracking in breeding black-browed albatrosses attracted to fishing boats. We tested for answers to the following questions. (i) Can future boat locations be anticipated from cues available to birds? (ii) Are birds able to appropriately use these cues to increase encounters? (iii) How frequently do birds use these cues? Boats were spatially persistent: birds searching in the direction where they previously attended boats would encounter twice as many boats compared with following a random direction strategy. A large proportion of birds did not use this cue: across pairs of consecutive trips (
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