Serendipitous observations from animal-borne video loggers reveal synchronous diving and equivalent simultaneous prey capture rates in chinstrap penguins

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Hinke, Jefferson T., Russell, Tamara M., Hermanson, Victoria R., Brazier, Laura, Walden, Stephanie L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Ecology; Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Antarctic; Cape Shirreff; Livingston Island; Shirreff; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctica; antarcticus; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03937-5; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00227-021-03937-5.pdf; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-021-03937-5/fulltext.html

Abstract Seabirds often engage in coordinated, cooperative foraging to improve detection and capture of prey. An extreme example of such coordinated behavior is synchronicity, whereby the movements of individuals are aligned temporally and spatially. Synchronous diving among penguins has been report...