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
• Other Authors: The Laboratory (Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom), Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA), School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade do Porto, National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOC), University of Southampton, Centre for Biological Sciences (University of Southampton)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: envir; geo; Levy; Diomedea exulans
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1121201109; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00700869

International audience 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 resour...