Higher order affordances

TA Stoffregen, JB Wagman - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
Affordances are opportunities for action for a given animal (or animals) in a given
environment or situation. The concept of affordance has been widely adopted in the …

A review of post-whaling abundance, trends, changes in distribution and migration patterns, and supplementary feeding of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales

E Seyboth, JO Meynecke, J De Bie… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were heavily targeted
during modern commercial whaling operations, with some 216,000 individuals killed …

Return of large fin whale feeding aggregations to historical whaling grounds in the Southern Ocean

H Herr, S Viquerat, F Devas, A Lees, L Wells… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus quoyi) of the Southern Hemisphere were brought to
near extinction by twentieth century industrial whaling. For decades, they had all but …

A novel whale optimization algorithm optimized XGBoost regression for estimating bearing capacity of concrete piles

H Nguyen, MT Cao, XL Tran, TH Tran… - Neural Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents a hybrid model combining the extreme gradient boosting machine
(XGBoost) and the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) to predict the bearing capacity of …

Bioinspired anisotropic slippery cilia for stiffness-controllable bubble transport

C Zhang, X **ao, Y Zhang, Z Liu, X **ao, A Nashalian… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bubbles play a crucial role in multidisciplinary industrial applications, eg., heat transfer and
mass transfer. However, existing methods to manipulate bubbles still face many challenges …

Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales

DE Cade, JA Fahlbusch, WK Oestreich, J Ryan… - Animal Behaviour, 2021 - Elsevier
Large groups of animals aggregate around resource hotspots, with group size often
influenced by the heterogeneity of the environment. In most cases, the foraging success of …

Body condition and migration timing of east Australian humpback whales

G Russell, A Colefax, F Christiansen… - Marine Ecology …, 2022 - int-res.com
In order to exploit seasonally favourable habitats for feeding and breeding, humpback
whales Megaptera novaeangliae undertake one of the longest migrations in the animal …

Task dynamics define the contextual emergence of human corralling behaviors

P Nalepka, PL Silva, RW Kallen, K Shockley… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Social animals have the remarkable ability to organize into collectives to achieve goals
unobtainable to individual members. Equally striking is the observation that despite …

Drone observations of marine life and human–wildlife interactions off Sydney, Australia

V Pirotta, DP Hocking, J Iggleden, R Harcourt - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drones have become popular with the general public for viewing and filming marine life.
One amateur enthusiast platform, DroneSharkApp, films marine life in the waters off Sydney …

Environmental drivers of persistent humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae feeding events in a Mexican breeding area

N Ransome, A Frisch-Jordán, T Cheeseman… - Marine Ecology …, 2024 - int-res.com
Humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae typically fast for several months in low-latitude
breeding areas. Here we report on persistent feeding events during 5 wintering seasons …