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Cost of Living Dictates what Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises Eat: The Importance of Prey Quality on Predator Foraging Strategies

Understanding the mechanisms that drive prey selection is a major challenge in foraging ecology. Most studies of foraging strategies have focused on behavioural costs, and have generally failed to recognize that differences in the quality of prey may be as important to predators as the costs of acqu...

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Autores principales: Spitz, Jérôme, Trites, Andrew W., Becquet, Vanessa, Brind'Amour, Anik, Cherel, Yves, Galois, Robert, Ridoux, Vincent
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/PMC3503768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050096