Herring gulls target profitable Atlantic puffins during kleptoparasitic attack

• Published in: Animal Behaviour
• Main Authors: Wilson, David R., Busniuk, Kaylee, Storey, Anne e.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Burrows; Canada; fratercula; Fratercula arctica; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/16076/; https://research.library.mun.ca/16076/1/2020%20Busniuk%20et%20al%20postprint.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.05.012

Kleptoparasitism is a foraging strategy where one individual steals a procured food item from another individual. Individual kleptoparasites can optimize their foraging strategy by targeting more profitable hosts or by modifying their behaviour to expend less energy than they would by foraging indep...