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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2012
• Subjects: Research Article; Breton Island; Canada
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306388; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22438906; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033259

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...