At-sea behavior varies with lunar phase in a nocturnal pelagic seabird, the swallow-tailed gull.

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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Main Authors: Sebastian M Cruz, Mevin Hooten, Kathryn P Huyvaert, Carolina B Proaño, David J Anderson, Vsevolod Afanasyev, Martin Wikelski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3582633?pdf=render

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