Jellyfish Support High Energy Intake of Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea): Video Evidence from Animal-Borne Cameras

• Main Authors: Susan G. Heaslip, Sara J. Iverson, W. Don Bowen, Michael C. James
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Breton Island; Canada
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.348.9223

The endangered leatherback turtle is a large, highly migratory marine predator that inexplicably relies upon a diet of lowenergy gelatinous zooplankton. The location of these prey may be predictable at large oceanographic scales, given that leatherback turtles perform long distance migrations (1000s...