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In a recent study published in the prestigious open access journal PLoS ONE, a
team of scientists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City (IF-C3) and the Blanes Center for Advanced Studies in Spain have revisited the current Wandering Albatross flying data and have concluded that the movement patterns of these seabirds are the result of the interactions of the animal with its prey field. By studying computer models where prey is fractally distributed in the ocean (a well known fact familiar to marine ecologists), the authors of this novel study conclude that model seabirds flying over large-scale heterogeneous environments reproduce the observed detection (or capture) times between prey without ruling out the fact that Albatross may actually be performing Levy flights during search. These new findings are also useful for disentangling the current debate on how organism-environment interactions build up statistical patterns of movement, not only in seabirds but in other animals, humans and cyber-machines as well. Read more.
interinstitucional, investigadores de la UNAM asociados al Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad y lidereados por la 