Albatross movement suggests sensitivity to infrasound cues at sea
The ways in which seabirds navigate over very large spatial scales remain poorly understood. While olfactory and visual information can provide guidance over short distances, their range is often limited to 100s km, far below the navigational capacity of wide-ranging animals such as albatrosses. Inf...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:10589618 2023-11-12T04:16:25+01:00 Albatross movement suggests sensitivity to infrasound cues at sea Gillies, Natasha Martín López, Lucía Martina den Ouden, Olivier F. C. Assink, Jelle D. Basille, Mathieu Clay, Thomas A. Clusella-Trullas, Susana Joo, Rocío Weimerskirch, Henri Zampolli, Mario Zeyl, Jeffrey N. Patrick, Samantha C. 2023-10-09 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10589618/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37812719 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218679120 en eng National Academy of Sciences http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10589618/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37812719 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218679120 Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Biological Sciences Text 2023 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218679120 2023-10-29T00:43:32Z The ways in which seabirds navigate over very large spatial scales remain poorly understood. While olfactory and visual information can provide guidance over short distances, their range is often limited to 100s km, far below the navigational capacity of wide-ranging animals such as albatrosses. Infrasound is a form of low-frequency sound that propagates for 1,000s km in the atmosphere. In marine habitats, its association with storms and ocean surface waves could in effect make it a useful cue for anticipating environmental conditions that favor or hinder flight or be associated with profitable foraging patches. However, behavioral responses of wild birds to infrasound remain untested. Here, we explored whether wandering albatrosses, Diomedea exulans, respond to microbarom infrasound at sea. We used Global Positioning System tracks of 89 free-ranging albatrosses in combination with acoustic modeling to investigate whether albatrosses preferentially orientate toward areas of ‘loud’ microbarom infrasound on their foraging trips. We found that in addition to responding to winds encountered in situ, albatrosses moved toward source regions associated with higher sound pressure levels. These findings suggest that albatrosses may be responding to long-range infrasonic cues. As albatrosses depend on winds and waves for soaring flight, infrasonic cues may help albatrosses to identify environmental conditions that allow them to energetically optimize flight over long distances. Our results shed light on one of the great unresolved mysteries in nature, navigation in seemingly featureless ocean environments. Text Diomedea exulans PubMed Central (PMC) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 42 |
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The ways in which seabirds navigate over very large spatial scales remain poorly understood. While olfactory and visual information can provide guidance over short distances, their range is often limited to 100s km, far below the navigational capacity of wide-ranging animals such as albatrosses. Infrasound is a form of low-frequency sound that propagates for 1,000s km in the atmosphere. In marine habitats, its association with storms and ocean surface waves could in effect make it a useful cue for anticipating environmental conditions that favor or hinder flight or be associated with profitable foraging patches. However, behavioral responses of wild birds to infrasound remain untested. Here, we explored whether wandering albatrosses, Diomedea exulans, respond to microbarom infrasound at sea. We used Global Positioning System tracks of 89 free-ranging albatrosses in combination with acoustic modeling to investigate whether albatrosses preferentially orientate toward areas of ‘loud’ microbarom infrasound on their foraging trips. We found that in addition to responding to winds encountered in situ, albatrosses moved toward source regions associated with higher sound pressure levels. These findings suggest that albatrosses may be responding to long-range infrasonic cues. As albatrosses depend on winds and waves for soaring flight, infrasonic cues may help albatrosses to identify environmental conditions that allow them to energetically optimize flight over long distances. Our results shed light on one of the great unresolved mysteries in nature, navigation in seemingly featureless ocean environments. |
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Gillies, Natasha Martín López, Lucía Martina den Ouden, Olivier F. C. Assink, Jelle D. Basille, Mathieu Clay, Thomas A. Clusella-Trullas, Susana Joo, Rocío Weimerskirch, Henri Zampolli, Mario Zeyl, Jeffrey N. Patrick, Samantha C. |
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Albatross movement suggests sensitivity to infrasound cues at sea |
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