Monitoring the prey-field of marine predators: combining digital imaging with datalogging tags

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Hooker, Sascha K., Boyd, Ian L., Jessopp, Mark, Cox, Oliver, Blackwell, John, Boveng, Peter L., Bengtson, John L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2002
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Austral; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13404/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2002.tb01066.x/pdf

There is increasing interest in the diving behavior of marine mammals. However, identifying foraging among recorded dives often requires several assumptions. The simultaneous acquisition of images of the prey encountered, together with records of diving behavior will allow researchers to more fully...