Animal's eye view of the ocean

Animal's eye view of the ocean

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In this episode, researchers use animal-borne video cameras to explore foraging behaviors of animals in the open ocean.

In this episode, we cover:
•[00:00] Introduction
•[00:46] Taiki Adachi, an ecologist at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan, observed how elephant seals use their whiskers to locate prey in the dark depths of the ocean
•[02:13] Carey Kuhn, an ecologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington, explored how the size of prey affected the foraging behavior of northern fur seals.
•[03:43] Ryan Logan, an ecologist at California State University Long Beach, recorded a solitary sailfish hunting in the open ocean and estimated its energy expenditures.
•[05:05] Simone Videsen, an ecologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, performed a similar analysis of the energetic efficiency of humpback whales.
•[06:12] Takuya Maekawa, an engineer at Osaka University in Japan, designed a device to detect and automatically record rare behaviors performed by streaked shearwaters.
•[07:56] Final thoughts and conclusion.

About Our Guests:

Taiki Adachi
Assistant Professor
National Institute of Polar Research

Carey Kuhn
Researcher
Alaska Fisheries Science Center

Ryan Logan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
California State University Long Beach

Simone Videsen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Aarhus University

Takuya Maekawa
Associate Professor
Osaka University

View related content here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2119502119
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.1015594/full
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28748-0
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade3889
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/1/pgad447/7517476

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