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Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle
The relationship between the environment and marine animal small-scale behavior is not fully understood. This is largely due to the difficulty in obtaining environmental datasets with a high spatiotemporal precision. The problem is particularly pertinent in assessing the influence of environmental f...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10564450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37814539 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87016 |
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author | Uesaka, Leo Goto, Yusuke Naruoka, Masaru Weimerskirch, Henri Sato, Katsufumi Sakamoto, Kentaro Q |
author_facet | Uesaka, Leo Goto, Yusuke Naruoka, Masaru Weimerskirch, Henri Sato, Katsufumi Sakamoto, Kentaro Q |
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description | The relationship between the environment and marine animal small-scale behavior is not fully understood. This is largely due to the difficulty in obtaining environmental datasets with a high spatiotemporal precision. The problem is particularly pertinent in assessing the influence of environmental factors in rapid, high energy-consuming behavior such as seabird take-off. To fill the gaps in the existing environmental datasets, we employed novel techniques using animal-borne sensors with motion records to estimate wind and ocean wave parameters and evaluated their influence on wandering albatross take-off patterns. Measurements revealed that wind speed and wave heights experienced by wandering albatrosses during take-off ranged from 0.7 to 15.4 m/s and 1.6 to 6.4 m, respectively. The four indices measured (flapping number, frequency, sea surface running speed, and duration) also varied with the environmental conditions (e.g., flapping number varied from 0 to over 20). Importantly, take-off was easier under higher wave conditions than under lower wave conditions at a constant wind speed, and take-off effort increased only when both wind and waves were gentle. Our data suggest that both ocean waves and winds play important roles for albatross take-off and advances our current understanding of albatross flight mechanisms. |
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spelling | pubmed-105644502023-10-11 Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle Uesaka, Leo Goto, Yusuke Naruoka, Masaru Weimerskirch, Henri Sato, Katsufumi Sakamoto, Kentaro Q eLife Ecology The relationship between the environment and marine animal small-scale behavior is not fully understood. This is largely due to the difficulty in obtaining environmental datasets with a high spatiotemporal precision. The problem is particularly pertinent in assessing the influence of environmental factors in rapid, high energy-consuming behavior such as seabird take-off. To fill the gaps in the existing environmental datasets, we employed novel techniques using animal-borne sensors with motion records to estimate wind and ocean wave parameters and evaluated their influence on wandering albatross take-off patterns. Measurements revealed that wind speed and wave heights experienced by wandering albatrosses during take-off ranged from 0.7 to 15.4 m/s and 1.6 to 6.4 m, respectively. The four indices measured (flapping number, frequency, sea surface running speed, and duration) also varied with the environmental conditions (e.g., flapping number varied from 0 to over 20). Importantly, take-off was easier under higher wave conditions than under lower wave conditions at a constant wind speed, and take-off effort increased only when both wind and waves were gentle. Our data suggest that both ocean waves and winds play important roles for albatross take-off and advances our current understanding of albatross flight mechanisms. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2023-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10564450/ /pubmed/37814539 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87016 Text en © 2023, Uesaka et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Ecology Uesaka, Leo Goto, Yusuke Naruoka, Masaru Weimerskirch, Henri Sato, Katsufumi Sakamoto, Kentaro Q Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle |
title | Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle |
title_full | Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle |
title_fullStr | Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle |
title_full_unstemmed | Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle |
title_short | Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle |
title_sort | wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle |
topic | Ecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10564450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37814539 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87016 |
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