Similar Circling Movements Observed Across Marine Megafauna Taxa

Overview

Journal iScience

Publisher Cell Press

Date 2021 May 17

PMID 33997664

Citations 3

Authors

Tomoko Narazaki

Itsumi Nakamura

Kagari Aoki

Takashi Iwata

Kozue Shiomi

Paolo Luschi

Hiroyuki Suganuma

Carl G Meyer

Rui Matsumoto

Charles A Bost

Yves Handrich

Masao Amano

Ryosuke Okamoto

Kyoichi Mori

Stephane Ciccione

Jerome Bourjea

Katsufumi Sato

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Abstract

Advances in biologging technology have enabled 3D dead-reckoning reconstruction of marine animal movements at spatiotemporal scales of meters and seconds. Examining high-resolution 3D movements of sharks (, N = 4; , N = 1), sea turtles (, N = 3), penguins (, N = 6), and marine mammals (, N = 4; , N = 1), we report the discovery of circling events where animals consecutively circled more than twice at relatively constant angular speeds. Similar circling behaviors were observed across a wide variety of marine megafauna, suggesting these behaviors might serve several similar purposes across taxa including foraging, social interactions, and navigation.

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