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- Title
An adaptive bottlenose dolphin foraging tactic, "shipside feeding," using container ships in an urban estuarine environment.
- Authors
Weinpress‐Galipeau, Meghan; Baker, Hannah; Wolf, Bethany; Roumillat, Bill; Fair, Patricia A.
- Abstract
Using the shipside foraging tactic, dolphins in Charleston may be able to trap fish more easily in an already prey rich area with less foraging competition from other dolphins. Shipside foraging sometimes began away from the ship and moved in towards the ship, or began along the side of the ship and remained shipside. The consistent presence of commercial ships in this busy harbor offers a substantial opportunity for dolphins to conduct "shipside feeding" (i.e., dolphins feeding along the sides of docked commercial container ships) year-round. An adaptive bottlenose dolphin foraging tactic, "shipside feeding", using container ships in an urban estuarine environment.
- Subjects
BOTTLENOSE dolphin; CONTAINER ships; BOTTLENOSE dolphin behavior; URBAN ecology (Sociology); MARINE mammal populations; BEACHES; ANIMAL behavior; PREDATION
- Publication
Marine Mammal Science, 2021, Vol 37, Issue 3, p1159
- ISSN
0824-0469
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mms.12806