Loggerhead Turtles (Caretta caretta) Use Vision to Forage on Gelatinous Prey in Mid-Water

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Narazaki, Tomoko ^a   Sato, Katsufumi ^a   Abernathy, Kyler J ^b   Marshall, Greg J ^b   Miyazaki, Nobuyuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b National Geographic Remote Imaging   (United States)

^c Ocean Policy Research Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CARETTA CARETTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; IMAGING SYSTEM; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LOCOMOTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TURTLE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; JAPAN; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TURTLES; VIDEO RECORDING; VISION, OCULAR;

ANIMALIA; CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84878951122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066043     Document Type: Article

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