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Jellyfish Support High Energy Intake of Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea): Video Evidence from Animal-Borne Cameras

The endangered leatherback turtle is a large, highly migratory marine predator that inexplicably relies upon a diet of low-energy gelatinous zooplankton. The location of these prey may be predictable at large oceanographic scales, given that leatherback turtles perform long distance migrations (1000...

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Autores principales: Heaslip, Susan G., Iverson, Sara J., Bowen, W. Don, James, Michael C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22438906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033259