Unravelling the mysteries of a mesopelagic diet: a large apex predator specializes on small prey

By Y. Naito, Daniel P. Costa, T. Adachi, P. Robinson, M. Fowler, A. Takahashi. 2013

158 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ocean Engineering, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. J. Arnould
2. F. Bailleul
3. C. Guinet
4. A. Dragon
5. Daniel P. Costa
6. Y. Cherel

In Ocean Engineering

1. C. Guinet

In Oceanography

1. C. Guinet

Citations in the corpus

• Southern elephant seal foraging success in relation to temperature and light conditions: insight into prey distribution (2014, background): “Furthermore, a recent study using a head-mounted camera on northern elephant seals (Naito et al. 2013) identified 2 small mesopelagic fishes as prey items, a myctophid and a bathypelagid, suggesting that elephant seals, despite their large size, are feeding on abundant but small prey items.”