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

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Heaslip, Susan G., Iverson, Sara J., Bowen, W. Don, James, Michael C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Breton Island; Canada
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033259; http://hdl.handle.net/10222/29054

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