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  • Motive for Killing: What Dr...
    Machovsky-Capuska, Gabriel E.; Coogan, Sean C. P.; Simpson, Stephen J.; Raubenheimer, David

    Ethology, 09/2016, Letnik: 122, Številka: 9
    Journal Article

    Carnivorous animals are assumed to consume prey to optimise energy intake. Recently, however, studies using Nutritional Geometry (NG) have demonstrated that specific blends of macronutrients (e.g. protein, fat and in some cases carbohydrates), rather than energy per se, drive the food selection and intake of some vertebrate and invertebrate predators in the laboratory. A vital next step is to examine the role of nutrients in the foraging decisions of predators in the wild, but extending NG studies of carnivores from the laboratory to the field presents several challenges. Biologging technology offers a solution for collecting relevant data which when combined with NG will yield new insights into wild predator nutritional ecology.