The lunar cycle affects at-sea behaviour in a pelagic seabird, the streaked shearwater, Calonectris leucomelas
The lunar cycle affects at-sea behaviour in a pelagic seabird, the streaked shearwater, Calonectris leucomelas
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10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.07.019
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2008-11-01
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2.5
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Trathan, Philip N.
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作者：
Yamamoto, Takashi;Takahashi, Akinori;Trathan, Philip N.
月球周期已被证明会影响多种海洋动物的行为。然而，海鸟和海洋哺乳动物的行为变化以及它们对月球周期的反应的记录较少，主要是因为长期记录它们的海上行为存在技术困难。由于海鸟通常依赖小空间尺度的视觉线索，因此月光下的环境光水平可能对其夜间海上觅食和躲避捕食者的行为产生强烈影响。我们使用连接到越冬条纹海鸥上的全球定位传感器记录器来检查鸟类的海上行为是否随月相变化。海鸥从日本迁徙到新几内亚北部海域。它们在夜间的活动与月相同步变化：与新月相比，满月的夜晚鸟类飞行的时间更长，降落在水面的频率也更高。我们的研究结果表明，远洋海鸟的海上行为与月球周期密切相关。 (C) 2008 年动物行为研究协会。由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
The lunar cycle has been shown to affect the behaviour of a variety of marine animals. However, changes in the behaviour of seabirds and marine mammals and how they respond to the lunar cycle have been less well documented, principally because of the technical difficulties in long-term recording of their at-sea behaviour. Because seabirds generally rely on visual cues at small spatial scales, ambient light levels by moonlight may have a strong influence on their foraging and predator avoidance behaviours at sea at night. We used global location sensor loggers attached to wintering streaked shearwaters to examine whether the birds' at-sea behaviour varied with the lunar phase. The shearwaters migrated from Japan to the seas off northern New Guinea. Their activities at night changed synchronously with the lunar phase: birds flew for longer periods and landed on water more frequently on nights with a full moon than when there was a new moon. Our results indicate that at-sea behaviour of pelagic seabirds is closely associated with the lunar cycle. (C) 2008 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.