Supervised accelerometry analysis can identify prey capture by penguins at sea

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 4295-4302

  Carroll, Gemma ^a   Slip, David ^b   Jonsen, Ian ^b   Harcourt, Rob ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TARONGA CONSERVATION SOCIETY AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energetics; Eudyptula minor; Feeding; Foraging ecology; Machine learning; Penguin; Predation; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EUDYPTULA MINOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMAL; DIVING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PENGUIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SWIMMING;

ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMALS; DIVING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPHENISCIDAE; SWIMMING;

EID: 84925880116     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: 14779145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.113076     Document Type: Article

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