Behavioural adjustments during foraging in two diving seabirds: king and macaroni penguins

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Tessier, Eugénie, Bost, Charles-André
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; Indian; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Island; Eudyptes chrysolophus; King Penguins
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03381805; https://hal.science/hal-03381805/document; https://hal.science/hal-03381805/file/Tessier-Bost%20%20Behavioural%20Adjustments%20during%20foraging%20Marine%20Biology%202020.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03711-z

International audience Optimal foraging theory predicts that diving predators should maximise their energy intake while minimizing the costs of their foraging activities at depth. This hypothesis was tested in two breath-hold divers that foraged in the pelagic waters off Kerguelen Island, southern I...