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At–Sea Behavior Varies with Lunar Phase in a Nocturnal Pelagic Seabird, the Swallow-Tailed Gull

Strong and predictable environmental variability can reward flexible behaviors among animals. We used long-term records of activity data that cover several lunar cycles to investigate whether behavior at-sea of swallow-tailed gulls Creagrus furcatus, a nocturnal pelagic seabird, varied with lunar ph...

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Autores principales: Cruz, Sebastian M., Hooten, Mevin, Huyvaert, Kathryn P., Proaño, Carolina B., Anderson, David J., Afanasyev, Vsevolod, Wikelski, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23468889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056889