Early-life foraging: Behavioral responses of newly fledged albatrosses to environmental conditions.

ABSTRACT: In order to survive and later recruit into a population, juvenile animals need to acquire resources through the use of innate and/or learnt behaviors in an environment new to them. For far-ranging marine species, such as the wandering albatross Diomedea exulans, this is particularly challenging as individuals need to be able to rapidly adapt and optimize their movement strategies in response to the highly dynamic and heterogeneous nature of their open-ocean pelagic habitats. Critical to this is the development and flexibility of dispersal and exploratory behaviors. Here, we examine the movements of eight juvenile wandering albatrosses, tracked using GPS/Argos satellite transmitters for eight months following fledging, and compare these to the trajectories of 17 adults to assess diff

SUBMITTER: de Grissac S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5587467 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature