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Social Interactions of Juvenile Brown Boobies at Sea as Observed with Animal-Borne Video Cameras

While social interactions play a crucial role on the development of young individuals, those of highly mobile juvenile birds in inaccessible environments are difficult to observe. In this study, we deployed miniaturised video recorders on juvenile brown boobies Sula leucogaster, which had been hand-...

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Autores principales: Yoda, Ken, Murakoshi, Miku, Tsutsui, Kota, Kohno, Hiroyoshi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21573196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019602
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author Yoda, Ken
Murakoshi, Miku
Tsutsui, Kota
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description While social interactions play a crucial role on the development of young individuals, those of highly mobile juvenile birds in inaccessible environments are difficult to observe. In this study, we deployed miniaturised video recorders on juvenile brown boobies Sula leucogaster, which had been hand-fed beginning a few days after hatching, to examine how social interactions between tagged juveniles and other birds affected their flight and foraging behaviour. Juveniles flew longer with congeners, especially with adult birds, than solitarily. In addition, approximately 40% of foraging occurred close to aggregations of congeners and other species. Young seabirds voluntarily followed other birds, which may directly enhance their foraging success and improve foraging and flying skills during their developmental stage, or both.
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spelling pubmed-30878092011-05-13 Social Interactions of Juvenile Brown Boobies at Sea as Observed with Animal-Borne Video Cameras Yoda, Ken Murakoshi, Miku Tsutsui, Kota Kohno, Hiroyoshi PLoS One Research Article While social interactions play a crucial role on the development of young individuals, those of highly mobile juvenile birds in inaccessible environments are difficult to observe. In this study, we deployed miniaturised video recorders on juvenile brown boobies Sula leucogaster, which had been hand-fed beginning a few days after hatching, to examine how social interactions between tagged juveniles and other birds affected their flight and foraging behaviour. Juveniles flew longer with congeners, especially with adult birds, than solitarily. In addition, approximately 40% of foraging occurred close to aggregations of congeners and other species. Young seabirds voluntarily followed other birds, which may directly enhance their foraging success and improve foraging and flying skills during their developmental stage, or both. Public Library of Science 2011-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3087809/ /pubmed/21573196 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019602 Text en Yoda et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Social Interactions of Juvenile Brown Boobies at Sea as Observed with Animal-Borne Video Cameras
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