Lords of the Rings: Mud ring feeding by bottlenose dolphins in a Caribbean estuary revealed from sea, air, and space.

Autor: Ramos, Eric A., Santoya, Leomir, Verde, Joel, Walker, Zoe, Castelblanco‐Martínez, Nataly, Kiszka, Jeremy J., Rieucau, Guillaume
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Zdroj: Marine Mammal Science; Jan2022, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p364-373, 10p
Abstrakt: To identify mud ring trails and direct observations of dolphin mud ring feeding, we searched an area of 470 km SP 2 sp of satellite imagery covering Chetumal-Corozal Bay (including its interior and coastlines in Mexico and Belize) (Figure 1). Bottlenose dolphins ( I Tursiops i spp.) display a remarkably diverse array of individual and cooperative foraging tactics across their global distribution that typically reflect local adaptations to habitat conditions and prey types (Finn et al., 2009; Mann & Sargeant, 2003; Torres & Read, 2009). Mud ring trails (n = 94) and a single instance of two dolphins mud ring feeding were detected near the northwest coast of the bay in very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery using Google Earth. [Extracted from the article]
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