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Table 2 Dive cycle phase, likelihood of recording other seals, and their orientations

From: Images as proximity sensors: the incidence of conspecific foraging in Antarctic fur seals

 

All images

Light images

Other seals

Proportion (% seals vs. light images)

Orientation

Same

Perpendicular

Towards

Dive descent

6012

1478

4

0.3

0

2

2

Dive bottom

21,591

3109

66

2.1

9

54

3

Dive ascent

10,171

2975

49

1.6

34

6

9

Surface

299

130

2

1.5

0

2

0

n

    

43

64

14

  1. Proportion of other seals observed is given relative to the number of light images (using TDR light >150 as a proxy for detectability of other seals). Orientations of observed seals are shown relative to the instrumented seal
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Animal Biotelemetry

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