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Sealing the deal – Antarctic fur seals' active hunting tactics to capture small evasive prey revealed by miniature sonar tags

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Chevallay, Mathilde | Guinet, Christophe | Goulet-Tran, Didier | Jeanniard Du Dot, Tiphaine

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International audience. We describe fine-scale hunting tactics of Antarctic fur seals and show that fur seals rely on their ability to perform bursts of acceleration to capture their small evasive prey.

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