Hunting behavior of a marine mammal beneath the antarctic fast Ice. Academic Article

abstract

• The hunting behavior of a marine mammal was studied beneath the Antarctic fast ice with an animal-borne video system and data recorder. Weddell seals stalked large Antarctic cod and the smaller subice fish Pagothenia borchgrevinki, often with the under-ice surface for backlighting, which implies that vision is important for hunting. They approached to within centimeters of cod without startling the fish. Seals flushed P. borchgrevinki by blowing air into subice crevices or pursued them into the platelet ice. These observations highlight the broad range of insights that are possible with simultaneous recordings of video, audio, three-dimensional dive paths, and locomotor effort.

authors

• Davis, Randall

published proceedings

• Science

altmetric score

• 19.25

author list (cited authors)

• Davis, R. W., Fuiman, L. A., Williams, T. M., Collier, S. O., Hagey, W. P., Kanatous, S. B., Kohin, S., & Horning, M.

citation count

• 225

complete list of authors

• Davis, RW||Fuiman, LA||Williams, TM||Collier, SO||Hagey, WP||Kanatous, SB||Kohin, S||Horning, M

publication date

• February 1999

publisher

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)  Publisher

published in

• Science  Journal

keywords

• 0602 Ecology

PubMed Central ID

• 9974394

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1126/science.283.5404.993

start page

• 993

end page

• 996

volume

• 283

issue

• 5404

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.283.5404.993