Foraging success of biological Levy flights recorded in situ

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Humphries, Nicolas E., Weimerskirch, Henri, Queiroz, Nuno, Southall, Emily J., Sims, David W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Levy; Diomedea exulans
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/340027/

It is an open question how animals find food in dynamic natural environments where they possess little or no knowledge of where resources are located. Foraging theory predicts that in environments with sparsely distributed target resources, where forager knowledge about resources’ locations is incom...