The use of stomach temperature records for the calculation of daily food intake in cormorants
Open Access
- 1 April 1994
- journal article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Journal of Experimental Biology
- Vol. 189 (1) , 105-115
- https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.189.1.105
Abstract
We present a new method of measuring the food intake in cormorants based on stomach temperature recordings. Stomach temperature loggers were deployed both in captive and in free-living birds. We examine the accuracy of this method and compare it with the standard methods of evaluating food intake by pellet or stomach content analysis.Keywords
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