Ontogeny of plunge diving behaviour in brown boobies: Application of a data logging technique to hand-raised seabirds
Ontogeny of plunge diving behaviour in brown boobies: Application of a data logging technique to hand-raised seabirds
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10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.11.004
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
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3
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Naito, Yasuhiko
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作者：
Yoda, Ken;Kohno, Hiroyoshi;Naito, Yasuhiko
海鸟在羽翼未丰后如何获得潜水技能？这是完善我们对海鸟生活史的基本知识的一个重要问题，但幼鸟的流动性阻碍了对潜水行为发展的持续记录。在这项研究中，我们饲养了刚孵化的棕色鲣鸟苏拉，它在羽翼发育后有很长的一段时间。一旦鲣鸟开始飞行，它们就会在海洋和巢穴之间往返，向我们——它们的代理父母——乞求食物。在幼雏后的护理期间，使用数据记录器记录了潜水行为的发展。此外，我们在野外给成年褐鲣鸟安装了数据记录仪，并将它们的潜水表现与幼年褐鲣鸟进行了比较。人工饲养的幼鱼在羽化后的第一个月内，潜水能力发育相对较慢。个体发育行为的缓慢发展可能是该物种羽翼发育后照料期延长的直接原因。该研究表明，结合生物记录和人工饲养海鸟是评估这些动物潜水行为个体发生的有用工具。(c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
How do seabirds acquire diving skills after fledging? This is an important issue to complete our basic knowledge of life history in seabirds, but the mobility of juveniles obstructs the continuous recording of the development of diving behaviour. In this study, we raised hatchling brown boobies, Sula leucogaster, which are known to have a long post-fledging period. Once boobies began to fly, they made round trips between the sea and the nest, and begged for food from us, their surrogate parents. During this post-fledging care period, the development of diving behaviour was recorded using data loggers. In addition, we attached data loggers to adult brown boobies in the field and compared their diving performance with that of juveniles. The hand-raised juveniles had relatively slow development of diving ability during the first month after fledging. This slow development of behaviour with ontogeny might be the proximate cause for the extended post-fledging care period in this species. This study shows that the combination of bio-logging and hand raising of seabirds is a useful tool for assessing the ontogeny of diving behaviour in these animals. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.