Estuarine crocodiles ride surface currents to facilitate long-distance travel

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 955-964

  Campbell, Hamish A ^a   Watts, Matthew E ^a   Sullivan, Scott ^b   Read, Mark A ^b   Choukroun, Severine ^c   Irwin, Steve R ^d   Franklin, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Australia Zoo Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Crocodylus porosus; Migration; Telemetry; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; CROCODILIAN; DATA PROCESSING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE ORGANISM; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; OCEANIC CURRENT; TELEMETRY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEA; SPACE FLIGHT; TELEMETRY; WATER FLOW;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SPACECRAFT; TELEMETRY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 79952011703     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01709.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Allen, G.R. (1974) The marine crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, from Ponape, Eastern Caroline Islands, with notes on food habits of crocodiles from the Palau Archipelago. Copeia, 1974, 553.
2. Argos User's Manual 2000. Available online at http://www.cls.fr/manuel/ html/sommaire.htm.
3. Barton, N.H. & Hewitt, G.M. (1989) Adaptation, speciation, and hybrid zones. Nature, 341, 497.
4. Boles, L.C. & Lohmann, K.J. (2003) True navigation and magnetic maps in spiny lobsters. Nature, 421, 60-63.
5. Caldicott, D.G.E., Croser, D., Manolis, C., Webb, G. & Britton, A. (2005) Crocodile attack in Australia. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 16, 143-159.
6. Calsbeek, R. & Smith, T.B. (2003) Ocean currents mediate evolution in island lizards. Nature, 426, 552-555.
7. Cramp, R.L., Meyer, E.A., Sparks, N. & Franklin, C.E. (2008) Functional and morphological plasticity of crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) salt glands. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211, 1482-1489.
8. Darwin, C. 1859. The Origin of Species. Oxford, London.
9. Ditmars, R.L. 1957. Reptiles of the World. Mac Millan Co., New York, NY, USA.
10. Domingues-Laso, J. (2007) Relocation of crocodilians using magnets. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter, 27, 5-6.
11. Drucker, E.F. & Lauder, G.V. (2000) A hydro-dynamic analysis of swimming speed, Wake structure and locomotor force in slow and fast swimming labriform swimmers. Journal of Experimental Biology, 203, 2379-2393.
12. Elsworth, P.G., Seebacher, F. & Franklin, C.E. (2003) Sustained swimming performance in crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus), Effects of body size and temperature. Journal ofHerpetology, 37, 363-368.
13. Franklin, C.E. & Grigg, G.C. (1993) Increased vascularity of the lingual saltglands of the Estuarine crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, kept in hyperosmotic salinity. Journal of Morphology, 218, 143-151.
14. Frey, E. & Salisbury, S.W. 2001. The kinematics of aquatic locomotion of Osteolaemus tetrapis Cope. Crocodilian Biology and Evolution (eds G.C. Grigg, F. Seebacher & C.E. Franklin), pp. 165-179. Surrey Beatty, Chipping Norton, NSW, Australia.
15. Gaspar, P., Georges, J.Y., Fossette, S., Lenoble, A., Ferraroli, S. & Le Maho, Y. (2006) Marine animal behaviour, Neglecting ocean currents can lead us up the wrong track. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 273, 2697-2702.
16. Gill, R.E., Tibbitts, T.L., Douglas, D.C., Handel, C.M., Mulcahy, D.M., Gottschalck, J.C., Warnock, N., McCaffery, B.J., Battley, P.F. & Piersma, T. (2009) Extreme endurance flights by landbirds crossing the Pacific Ocean, Ecological corridor rather than barrier? Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 276, 447-458.
17. Kay, W.R. (2004) Movements and home ranges of radio-tracked Crocodylus porosus in the Cambridge gulf region of Western Australia. Wildlife Research, 31, 495-508.
18. Keeton, W.T. (1971) Magnetics interfere with pigeon homing. Proceedings of theNational Academy of Science, 68, 102-109.
19. Lohmann, K.J., Lohmann, C.M.F., Ehrhart, L.M., Bagley, D.A. & Swing, T. (2004) Geomagneticmap used in sea-turtle navigation. Nature, 428, 909-910.
20. Mayr, E. 1963. Animal Species and Evolution. Belknap, Cambridge, MA.
21. Metcalfe, J.D., Hunter, E. & Buckley, A.A. (2006) The migratory behaviour of North Sea plaice, Currents, clocks and clues. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 39, 25-36.
22. Pough, F.H. (1980) The advantages of ectothermy for tetrapods. American Naturalist, 115, 92-112.
23. Ratanakorn, P., Amget, B. & Ottlet, B. 1993. Preliminary surveys of crocodilians in Thailand. Crocodiles. Proceedings of the 12th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. pp. 35-56.
24. Read, M.A., Grigg, G.C., Irwin, S.R., Shanahan, D. & Franklin, C.E. (2007) Satellite tracking reveals long distance coastal travel and homing by translocated estuarine crocodiles, Crocodylus porosus. Public Library of Science ONE, 2, e949.
25. Taplin, L.E. (1984) Homeostasis of plasma electrolytes, water and sodium pools in the estuarine crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, from fresh, saline and hypersaline waters. Oecologia, 63, 63-70.
26. Taplin, L.E. (1985) Sodiumand water budgets of the fasted estuarine crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, in sea-water. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 155, 501-513.
27. Taplin, L.E. (1988) Osmoregulation in crocodilians. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 63, 333-377.
28. Taplin, L.E. & Grigg, G.C. (1981) Salt-Glands in the tongue of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus Porosus. Science, 212, 1045-1047.
29. Taplin, L.E. & Grigg, G.C. (1989) Historical zoogeography of the eusuchian crocodilians, A physiological perspective. American Zoologist, 29, 885-901.
30. Walsh, B. 1987. Crocodile capture methods used in the Northern Territory of Australia. Wildlife Management: Crocodiles and Alligators (eds G.J.W. Webb, S.C. Manolis & P.J. Whitehead), pp. 249-252. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Sydney, in association with the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Australia.
31. Walsh, B. & Whitehead, P.J. (1993) Problem crocodiles, Crocodylus Porosus, at Nhulunbuy, Northern-Territory - an assessment of relocation as a management strategy. Wildlife Research, 20, 127-135.
32. Webb, G. & Manolis, C. 1989. Crocodiles of Australia. Reed, French forest, NSW.
33. Wolanski, E. (1993) Water circulation in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Journal of Marine Systems., 4, 401-420.
34. Zar, J.H. 1999. Biostatistical Analysis. PrenticeHall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.